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  Metros   Mumbai  05 Dec 2016  Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah, Mohan Bhagwat among bigwigs at Nitin Gadkari wedding

Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah, Mohan Bhagwat among bigwigs at Nitin Gadkari wedding

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Published : Dec 5, 2016, 6:44 am IST
Updated : Dec 5, 2016, 6:56 am IST

More than 10,000 guests had flown to Nagpur in 50 charter flights according to reports.

The newly-wed couple Aditya and Ketki, daughter of Union minister Nitin Gadkari, is greeted by Yoga guru Baba Ramdev and RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat in Nagpur on Sunday. (Photo: PTI)
 The newly-wed couple Aditya and Ketki, daughter of Union minister Nitin Gadkari, is greeted by Yoga guru Baba Ramdev and RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat in Nagpur on Sunday. (Photo: PTI)

Mumbai: Union minister Nitin Gadkari’s daughter’s wedding ceremony in Nagpur was attended by a host of dignitaries, including Central ministers Rajnath Singh and Venkaiah Naidu, BJP president Amit Shah, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat and Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis.Gadkari's daughter Ketki, youngest of his three children, tied the knot with Aditya Kaskhedikar, who works with Facebook in the US.

Assam governor Banwarilal Purohit, Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray, MNS president Raj Thackeray, Union ministers Maneka Gandhi, Prakash Javadekar, Hansraj Ahir and Piyush Goyal, yoga guru Baba Ramdev and former aviation minister and senior NCP leader Praful Patel were among other VVIPs present on the occasion. While Mr Singh and Mr Shah came Sunday morning, Mr Fadnavis and others landed here last night.

Maharashtra ministers Chandrakant Dada Patil, Subhash Deshmukh, Pankaja Munde, Girish Mahajan, Sadabhau Khotkar and Girish Deshmukh were also present on the occasion. More than 10,000 guests had flown to Nagpur in 50 charter flights according to reports. The wedding took place at Rani Kothi on Wardha Road in Nagpur.

The two-week Winter Session of the Maharashtra state legislature also began Sunday and hence almost all legislators were expected to attend the wedding.

Tags: nitin gadkari, rajnath singh, amit shah, devendra fadnavis
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