India, Dec. 27 -- President Droupadi Murmu will embark on a sea sortie in a submarine from Karwar Harbour in Karnataka on December 28, her office has said. Murmu (67) will be the second head of state to sail in a submarine. Former president (late) A P J Abdul Kalam had undertaken a submarine sortie on February 13, 2006, at Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh).
She is the first President of India to have taken a sortie in two fighter aircraft of the Indian Air Force. She flew in a Rafale on October 29 this year and took a sortie in a Sukhoi 30 MKI in 2023.
The president's undersea sortie is scheduled during her four-day visit to Goa, Karnataka and Jharkhand from Saturday. Murmu will leave for Goa in the evening of December 27, the Rashtrapati Bh...