Junagadh (Guj), Oct 10 (PTI) President Droupadi Murmu on Friday interacted with members of the Siddi community, a tribal group with African roots, in Gujarat's Junagadh district.

Speaking at the event at Sasan village in Gir Wildlife Sanctuary, Murmu urged them to provide education to their children for their bright future and take benefit of government schemes to achieve progress.

On the second day of her Gujarat visit, the President reached Sasan-Gir in the afternoon and enjoyed a lion safari inside the Gir National Park, the only surviving abode of Asiatic lions.

Later in the evening, she interacted with some Siddi community members at 'Sinh Sadan' at Sasan-Gir, the headquarter of the national park.

The Siddi community is an Indo-African group, descended from East Africans brought t

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