First speech of President Pranab Mukherjee

After the oath-taking ceremony, 13^thPresident of India Pranab Mukherjee said in his first speech that "We are in the midst of a fourth world war; the third was the Cold War, but it was very warm in Asia, Africa and Latin America till it ended in the early 1990s. The war against terrorism is the fourth; and it is a world war because it can raise its evil head anywhere in the world."

Pranab Mukherjee praised our armed forces as well as police forces.