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Sushma may join grand dinner with Ivanka, Modi

Hyderabad: Union external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj is expected to join the grand dinner that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be hosting for US President’s advisor and daughter Ivanka Trump at Taj Falaknuma Palace.

“We have received information that Sushma Swaraj will also attend the Falaknuma dinner after the GES inaugural,” said Hyderabad police commissioner VV Srinivasa Rao.


According to him, while Modi and Ivanka will dine in style with VVIPs at the Nizam’s famed ‘101Dining Table’, the other foreign delegates will partake of the feast in the palace lawns.

However, he clarified that neither Ivanka nor Modi will attend the grand dinner being hosted by CM K Chandrasekhar Rao at Golconda Fort’s Rani Mahal Lawns on November 29. “To ensure security in and around the two dinner venues, an additional 150 CCTV cameras have been installed,” he said.

While Ivanka is expected to land at Shamshabad airport early on November 28 morning and depart the next day by 9.30pm, PM will land at Begumpet airport on November 28 afternoon, helihop to Miyapur Metro station to flag off the Metro before throwing open GES at HICC. He will fly out from Shamshabad airport by 9.30pm after Taj Falaknuma dinner.

“Nearly 2,200 police personnel will be deployed from HICC to Taj Falaknuma as the entire focus is on VVIP arrangements. Though the dinner will go on for two-three hours, PM will attend only for one and half hours,” said Rao, adding that due to limited parking space at Falaknuma, parking arrangements are being made at Farooq Nagar bus station.

“We are in touch with the US Secret Service on Ivanka’s security. They have very strict protocols but will keep us in the loop, including for her unscheduled visits in the city,” he added.