The Queen’s Baton was handed over to India’s President Pratibha Patil by Queen Elizabeth II in a glittering ceremony at the Buckingham Palace here Thursday.

Patil then passed on the Baton to India’s sports minister M.S. Gill, who handed it over to Suresh Kalmadi, chairman of the organising committee of the Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games.

Kalmadi then handed over the baton to the first baton-bearer Abhinav Bindra, India’s first individual Olympic gold medallist.

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