There will be 170 people at the G20 dinner, which will be hosted by President Droupadi Murmu. On Saturday, the first day of the G20 summit in New Delhi, President Droupadi Murmu will throw a dinner in a room of the Bharat Mandapam, the conference’s location. Former prime ministers Manmohan Singh, HD Deve Gowda, and a number of chief ministers from different states are among those invited to the dinner.
Today’s speech by PM Modi marked the beginning of the G20 Summit in Delhi. After all G20 members agreed to PM Modi’s proposal to include this significant group of the global south in the exclusive club of the world’s top economies, the African Union officially joined the G20 on Saturday. In the midst of tremendous ovation from world leaders present at the Summit, Modi added, “With support from all of you, I invite African Union to join G20.” Azali Assoumani, president of the Union of Comoros and chair of the African Union (AU), was then accompanied by S. Jaishankar, minister of external affairs, to take a place at the G20 high table.
Leaders that have been invited to the G20 special dinner
The gala dinner will be held on September 9 at the multi-function hall of the Bharat Mandapam, and distinguished guests will attend, in addition to foreign leaders and heads of delegation, cabinet and state ministers, chief ministers of all states, and secretaries in the central government.
The dinner will be hosted by President Murmu and attended by Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar and his wife Sudesh Dhankhar, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, previous President Ram Nath Kovind, and former Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu.
Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah, Nitin Gadkari, Nirmala Sitharaman, Narendra Singh Tomar, S. Jaishankar, Arjun Munda, Smriti Irani, Piyush Goyal, Dharmendra Pradhan, and Pralhad Joshi are among the cabinet members who will attend the event.
Union ministers who have been invited to dinner include Narayan Rane, Sarbananda Sonowal, Virendra Kumar, Giriraj Singh, Jyotiraditya Nath Sindhiya, Ashwini Vaishnaw, Pashupati Kumar Paras, Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Kiran Rijiju, Rajkumar Singh, Hardeep Singh Puri, Mansukh Mandaviya, Bhupendra Yadav, Mahendra Nath Pandey, Purushotam Rupala, G Kishan Reddy, and Anurag Thakur.
Minister of state who are invited for the dinner are Rao Indrajeet Singh, Jitendra Singh, Arjun Ram Meghwal, Shripad Yasho Naik, Faggan Singh Kulaste, Prahlad Singh Patel, Ashwini Kumar Chaubey, Vijay Kumar Singh, Krishna Pal Gurjar, Rao Sahab Patil, Ramdas Athavale ,Sadhvi Niranjana Jyoti , Sanjiv Kumar Baliyan, Nityanand Rai, Pankaj Chaudhari, Anupriya Patel SP Singh Baghel, Rajiv Chandrashekhar, Shobha karandalaje, Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma, Darshana Jardosh, V. Muraleedharan, Meenakshi Lekhi, Som Prakash, Renuka Singh, Rameswar Teli, Kailash Chaudhary, Annpurna Devi, A Narayan Swami, Kaushal Kishor, Ajay Bhatt, BL Verma, Ajay Kumar Mishra, Debu Singh Chauhan, Bhagwat Khuba, Kapil Moreshwar Patil ,Pratima Bhaumik, Subhash Sarkar, Bhagwat Krishna Rao Karad ,Rajkumar Ranjan Singh ,Bhartiya Pravin Pawar, Visheshwar Tudu, Sukant Thakur, Mahendra Bhai, John Barla, Dr Ilmurugan, Nisith Pramanik.
The dinner will be attended by the CAG of India, Girish Chandra Murmu, the Lok Sabha Speaker, OM Birla, the NSA, Ajit Doval, the Delhi LG, VK Saxena, the G20 Sharepa, Amitabh Kant, as well as other notable guests and key figures.
Additionally invited to the exclusive event are former prime ministers Dr. Manmohan Singh and HD Deve Gowda. Deve Gowda, however, said on Friday that due to health issues, he would be unable to attend the G20 dinner hosted by President Murmu.
The names of chief ministers who have been invited for the dinner include Chief Minister Andhra Pradesh YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, Chief Minister Arunachal Pradesh Pema Khandu, Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma, Bihar CM Nitish Kumar, Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel, Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, Goa CM Pramod Sawant, Gujarat CM Bhupendra Patel, Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar, Himachal Pradesh CM Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu, Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren, Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah, Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan, Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde, Manipur CM N. Biren Singh, Meghalaya CM Conrad Sangma, Mizoram CM Zoramthanga, Nagaland CM Neiphiu Rio, Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik, Puducherry CM Rangaswami, Punjab CM Bhagwan Singh Mann, Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot Sikkim CM PS Golai, Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin, Telangana CM K Chandrashekar Rao, Tripura CM Manik Shah, Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath, Uttrakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami and West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee.
Those who aren’t invited to the G20 special dinner include:
Other political party leaders have not received invitations to the exclusive event. Mallikarjun Kharge, the leader of the opposition in the Rajya Sabha, was not invited to the G20 dinner . Rahul Gandhi, the head of the Congress, criticized the government for not inviting Mallikarjun Kharge, the Rajya Sabha’s leader of the opposition, during a press conference in Brussels.
