People from transgender community and sanitation workers have been invited to attend the swearing-in ceremony of Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi and the new cabinet of ministers to give them blessings.
Before the ceremony, BJP MP and former Social Justice and Empowerment minister Virendra Kumar felicitated the transgender community members at his residence while BJP MP and former Jal Shakti minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat felicitated sanitation workers.
Kumar said, ‘This is a part of Prime Minister Modi’s call of ‘sabka saath sabka vishwas and sabka prayas’. He added, ‘Including people from transgender community in the ceremony is to enhance the inclusivity message of the PM’.
‘This is the first time that people from the transgender community are formally invited for the swearing-in ceremony’, said Kumar.
He further added, ‘These participants have made contribution in the empowerment of the transgender community’.
Sonam Kinnar from the UP BJP unit said she along with 50 members of the community have come here to give blessings to the new government.
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