Dinner with Hon’ble President

11 July, 2013: I arrived in city from Jaipur yesterday evening and missed out the Silver Jubilee Wedding Anniversary party of Sunil and Sunita Kanoria.

In Jaipur, the dinner hosted by Rajasthan Governor, Margaret Alva, and attended by the President of India, was a rather private and simple affair with about 40 guests.

Besides the Governor and the The Hon’ble President of India, Sri Pranab Mukherjee, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, Vasundhara Raje Scindia, Justice S S Bhandari, General Gyan Bhushan, few Cabinet Ministers of the State Government, Director General of Police, Hari Ram Meena, were in attendance. Then there was the Protocol invitee list, outside it, there were hardly five or six people who were invited.

Apart from me, Ram Pratap, Jyotika Singh, Dr Sudhir Bhandari and his wife Reena Bhandari were there. Dr Bhandari is also the Honorary personal physician of the Governor.

Due to the Uttarakhand calamity, the dinner was kept a very simple affair and the proposed cultural performance, that usually goes with such dinners, was cancelled. The food was a good blend of Rajasthani cuisines as well as misti doi (sweetened curd) from Bengal. ess bee