It always feels great to share one’s birthday with a celebrity or a popular leader. In Tamil Nadu, some babies would always cherish their birthday for a very special reason.
On Monday, several Chennai parents received a pleasant surprise when their babies were gifted gold rings for sharing their birthday with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Tamil Nadu BJP gifted gold rings at a primary health centre in Chennai on Monday as part of PM Modi’s birthday celebrations.
Party's state unit President Tamilisai Soundararajan presented the gold rings to the newborns at the government-run PHC at Purasawalkam in Central Chennai.
She also gave away gift packs to some other babies born at the facility in the past few days.
Soundararajan told PTI that the party had announced it will present gold rings to all babies born at the PHC on Monday. However, only one baby was born at the facility.
"I presented a gold ring to one child (born Monday). However, we presented gift packs to other newborns, numbering 17-18, at the health centre," she told PTI.
Soundararajan, herself a gynaecologist, shared on Twitter, pictures of her with the newborns at the hospital.
The party state unit also distributed welfare aid to several people to mark the Prime Minister's 68th birthday.
Earlier in the day, Union Minister Prakash Javadekar and his cabinet colleague Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi unveiled a 568-kg ladoo on the occasion of PM Modi's 68th birthday.
Participating at a function organised by Sulabh International Social Service Organisation, which is celebrating the PM's birthday as 'Swachhta Diwas', Javadekar said, "Sanitation coverage has significantly increased in the country in last four years." Under the 'Swachhta Campaign' more than nine crore toilets have been constructed and 450 lakh villages have been declared open defecation free (ODF), Javadekar said.
Stating that sanitation coverage was only 30 per cent in the country in the first 60 to 62 years, the HRD minister said under the leadership of Modi the coverage now stood at 90 per cent.
