New Delhi: President Ram Nath Kovind, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman and minister of state for finance Anurag Singh Thakur stepped down from the podium during an event in New Delhi to check on a woman security guard who fainted, while the National Anthem was being played.

The leaders were attending the National Corporate Social Responsibility Awards function in the Vigyaan Bhavan in the National capital where the policewoman was deployed, PTI reported.