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Vinay Sahasrabuddhe - President of ICCR
December 31 , 2017
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- National vice-president of the BJP, Vinay Sahasrabuddhe, who is also member of Rajya Sabha has been appointed the President of Indian Council of Cultural Relations (ICCR).
- Sahasrabuddhe is the vice-president of Rambhau Mhalgi Prabodhini which is South Asia’s only training and research academy for elected representatives and voluntary social workers.
- ICCR was founded in 1950 by India's first Education Minister Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, who also served as its first President.
- The ICCR's main objectives are to actively participate in the formulation and implementation of policies and programmes pertaining to India's external cultural relations and to foster and strengthen cultural relations and mutual understanding between India and other countries.
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