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Queen Elizabeth II handed over the Queen's Baton to India's President Pratibha Patil in a glittering ceremony at the Buckingham Palace on 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.
The other baton-bearers were Sebastian Coe, Kapil Dev, Sania Mirza, Mikha Singh, Kelly Holmes, Monty Panesar, Vijender Kumar, Misha Grewal, Sushil Kumar, Susan Gilroy, Karnam Malleshwari, Dilip Tirkey and Gurbachan Singh Randhawa.
The Baton will now traverse the length and breadth of the Commonwealth for 240 days, visiting all of the other 70 nations, before embarking upon a 100 day tour of India.
