Vice President Hamid Ansari, Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and other prominent political personalities including Congress President Sonia Gandhi attended the 'Iftar' hosted by President Pranab Mukherjee this evening.
As indicated earlier, Prime Minister Narendra Modi did not attend the get together at the Rashtrapati Bhawan like last year. The PMO had on Tuesday said that Modi had scheduled a meeting with chief ministers of north eastern states on Wednesday evening.
Jammu Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed, former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, NCP President Sharad Pawar, JD(U) leader Sharad Yadav, TMC MP Derek O Brien, Pakistan High Commissioner Abdul Basit and diplomats from several other Islamic countries attended the reception. Leader of the Congress in Lok Sabha Malikarjun Kharge and Lt
Governor of Delhi Najeeb Jung were also among those who attended the Iftar.
In his Ramzan message, the President “Ramzan, a month of blessings and forgiveness reminds us of our duties towards the poor.