Nearly 15,000 visitors at Singapore Istana’s Deepavali open house

President Tharman Shanmugaratnam and Jane Ittogi posing for photos at a balloon sculpting activity booth at the open house at the Istana in Singapore, on Nov 12, 2023. — The Straits Times/ANN

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): Nearly 15,000 visitors turned up at the Istana on Sunday (Nov 12) when it opened to the public to mark Deepavali.

President Tharman Shanmugaratnam and his wife, Jane Ittogi, held a meet-and-greet session with the public in the morning and afternoon. It was Tharman’s first Istana open house as President.