Mongolian President items horse to Defence Minister Rajnath Singh

Rajnath Singh, the primary Indian Defence Minister to go to Mongolia, was gifted an impressive horse by the nation’s president on Wednesday.

Mongolian president items horse to defence minister Rajnath Singh (Twitter/@rajnathsingh)

Rajnath Singh, the primary Indian Defence Minister to go to Mongolia, was gifted an impressive horse by the nation’s president on Wednesday, seven years after Prime Minister Narendra Modi acquired the same present from the management of this nation.

“A special gift from our special friends in Mongolia. I have named this magnificent beauty, ‘Tejas’. Thank you, President Khurelsukh. Thank you Mongolia,” Singh tweeted on Wednesday together with footage of the white horse.

On Tuesday, Singh known as on Mongolian President Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh and reviewed the strategic bilateral ties.

“Excellent assembly with the President of Mongolia, H.E. U. Khurelsukh in Ulaanbaatar. Recalled my final assembly with him in 2018, when he was the Prime Minister of the nation. We are totally dedicated to additional deepening our multifaceted Strategic Partnership with Mongolia,” he stated in a tweet.

In 2015, Prime Minister Modi acquired a particular present — a brown racehorse — from his then Mongolian counterpart Chimed Saikhanbileg on his historic go to to this nation.

Defence Minister Singh is on a five-day go to to Mongolia and Japan from Monday with an purpose to broaden India’s strategic and defence ties with the 2 nations within the backdrop of evolving regional safety matrix and geo-political turmoil.

Singh’s go to to Mongolia from September 5 to 7 is the first-ever tour to the East Asian nation by an Indian defence minister.

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