ALL PICS: KANAK MANI DIXIT PRESIDENT'S EYE VIEW: President Yadav looks down on the Karnali Bridge at Chisapani during his visit to flood victims in the farwest this week.

Having toured the Kosi-ravaged area of the east, President Ram Baran Yadav this week visited parts of the far west that have been ravaged by flash floods and landslides.

Yadav spoke to the families affected by the devastating floods last month, lauded the government's response to the disaster and promised to follow up on rehabilitation.

He also used the opportunity to build on the brand new institution of the constitutional presidency, by rising above day-to-day politics to speak about humanitarian issues, development, communal harmony, the writing of a democratic constitution and of the need to protect Nepal's "sovereignty and territorial integrity".

Wearing a churidar jacket and achkan on kurta-pajamas, topped by a Dhaka topi, the president mingled among people of Kailali and Kanchanpur in the plains. In the hills, he paid a visit to Bhim Bahadur Bhat of Jorayal in Doti and his two surviving daughters. His wife and four other daughters died in a landslide on 20 September.

The president visited the landslide victims in Doti

The rescue and rehabilitation site at Bhajani in Kailali.

He posed with the crew of the presidential helicopter, with its newly-painted Nepali flag.