Concerned well-wishers enquire about Naidu's health

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President A P J Abdul Kalam [ Images ] and Deputy Prime Minister Lal Kishenchand Advani [ Images ] will call on Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu [ Images ], who survived an assassination attempt by Naxalites [ Images ], in Hyderabad.

President Kalam, who has a string of scheduled programmes in Hyderabad on Friday, will call on Naidu at his Jubilee Hills residence at 10:30 am, a spokesman of the Chief Minister's Office told PTI. Advani will arrive in the city at 9 am and drive straight to Naidu's residence.

On Thursday, President Kalam, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee [ Images ], Congress president Sonia Gandhi [ Images ], chief ministers of various states, industrialists and Union ministers spoke to Naidu on phone to enquire about his health.

Chief Ministers Jayalalithaa [ Images ], Digvijay Singh [ Images ], S M Krishna [ Images ], Narendra Modi [ Images ], Mulayam Singh Yadav [ Images ], Om Prakash Chautala, Ajit Jogi, N D Tiwari, Naveen Patnaik, Buddhadeb Bhattacharya [ Images ], Amarinder Singh and Ashok Gehlot [ Images ] were among those who rang up Naidu's residence to wish him speedy recovery.

Former prime ministers V P Singh [ Images ], H D Deve Gowda [ Images ], Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairperson Najma Heptullah, industrialists Mukesh Ambani [ Images ], Dr Anji Reddy and Nandakumar were the others who called.