At the invitation of Smt. Meira Kumar, Speaker of the Lok Sabha, Mr. László Kövér, Speaker of the National Assembly of Hungary is visiting India on November 24-30, 2012. The two Speakers exchange notes on state of play and furthering bilateral parliamentary relations. During the course of his official visit to Delhi, Mr. László Kövér pays a courtesy call on Shri Pranab Mukherjee, President of India too. Speaker Kövér is also visiting Darjeeling to commemorating the 170th anniversary of the death of Alexander Csoma de Kőrös (1784-1842) eminent Hungarian scholar making the first ever English-Tibetan Dictionary while living at Zangla Monastery in Zanskar in 1823. Alexander Csoma de Kőrös who is widely seen as the founder of Tibetology died and buried in Darjeeling.