Himachal Pradesh Vidhan Sabha speaker Brij Bihari Lal Butail revealed that President Pranab Mukherjee will address the Himachal Pradesh assembly May 24 to mark its golden jubilee. The president will reach Shimla on May 23.

Mukherjee is also scheduled to deliver the first Rabindranath Tagore memorial lecture at the Indian Institute of Advance Studies (IIAS) and address the 22th convocation of the Himachal Pradesh University here the same day. The president would also inaugurate the Tagore Centre for the Study of Culture and Civilization.