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Varanasi rickshaw puller invites PM Modi to daughter’s wedding, receives congratulatory letter from him

When Mangal Kewat, a resident of Domri village in Ramnagar at Varanasi wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi inviting him to his daughter’s wedding, never would he have imagined that he would get a reply. 

Kewat a rickshaw puller, sent the invitation of his daughter’s wedding to PM Modi and was overjoyed when he got a letter blessing the couple. He claims it was on the insistence of his friends that he sent a letter to the PM.

“Some of my friends asked me to send an invitation to Modiji so I sent one to Delhi and one to his Varanasi office. I never expected a response but now that we have got his letter, we are overjoyed. I have shown the letter to all guests at my daughter’s wedding,” he said.

PM Modi, in response to the invitation, wrote a letter to Kevat thanking him for sending the invitation and including him in the family’s moment of joy. He also gave his blessings to the newlyweds. 

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The wedding took place on February 8 2020.

While speaking to ANI, Mangal Kevat said, “PM Modi is my god and guru, so I had sent the first card of my daughter’s marriage to PM. We have got his letter and we are overjoyed.”

PM Modi was on a one-day visit to his parliamentary constituency of Varanasi today (February 16) where he inaugurates 36 projects and laid the foundation of 14 others besides unveiling the 63-feet statue of RSS ideologue Pt Deen Dayal Upadhyay at Padao.

(With agency inputs)

Source: Zee News