The President Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam greeted the Prime Minister Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee on the Prime Minister’s 79th birthday, at the latter’s residence today.

Dr. Kalam presented Shri Vajpayee a bouquet of flowers and a greeting card with the following message, including a few lines from a poem penned by the President himself:

“May I wish you a very happy birthday. I would like to dedicate on this day the following verse to you:

“When guns are silent, Flowers blossom on the earth, Fragrance engulfs good souls, Who created beautiful silence.”