PM Modi enjoys special lunch in Parliament with Mallikarjun Kharge and other leaders

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday enjoyed a special lunch organized by Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar along with fellow Members of Parliament to underline the importance of Millet Year 2023. PM Modi was present in this program for about 40 minutes. During this, PM Modi sat with Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar, Defense Minister Rajnath Singh, Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar and Congress President and MP Mallikarjun Kharge and enjoyed the food.

Minister of State for Agriculture Shobha Karandlaje told news agency ANI, "We prepared several dishes including roti and sweets made of jowar-bajra and ragi. Chefs were specially called from Karnataka for this. Enjoyed the meal." The dishes made today included millet khichdi, ragi dosa, ragi roti, jowar roti, turmeric vegetable, bajra, churma. Sweet dishes included millet kheer, millet cake and other dishes.

Earlier, PM Modi today called upon all the BJP MPs to eat millets like millet in their diet and run a mass movement to promote its practice in the country as well. The PM made this call at the BJP Parliamentary Party meeting. The party's National President Jagat Prakash Nadda, Defense Minister Rajnath Singh, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Prahlad Joshi, Union Ministers of State Arjun Ram Meghwal and V Muraleedharan were present in the meeting. In the meeting, there was talk about the upcoming strategy of the party and the Prime Minister also asked the MPs to organize a sports competition.