PM Narendra Modi, Priyanka, Robert Vadra attend wedding of former Congress CM Bhupinder Hooda's nephew

CHANDIGARH: Perhaps for the first time ever, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress chief Sonia Gandhi's daughter Priyanka Vadra and son-in-law Robert Vadra came together under one roof when they attended the wedding reception of former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Hooda's nephew at a five-star hotel in New Delhi on Sunday .

Haryana governor Kaptan Singh Solanki and the man who replaced Bhupinder Hooda as chief minister, Manohar Lal Khattar, did not attend despite being invited. Khattar was in Delhi for a meeting with BJP president Amit Shah after his infamous “Muslims should give up beef remark".

Modi, his cabinet colleagues and senior BJP functionaries attended the reception of Sukhinder Hooda aka Monu, son of the former CM's elder brother Joginder, at Taj Palace. The event was hosted by Bhupinder Hooda.

Sources said Modi and the Vadra couple came to the venue at different times. Con gress vice-president Rahul Gandhi was also there.

BJP's main poll plank against the Congress during the Haryana election cam paigning last year had been corruption. The saffron par ty had used Vadra-owned Skylight Hospitality's Rs 58 crore land deal with realty gi ant DLF to pin Bhupinder Hooda down in the assembly elections in October 2014 The land-deal controversy had also played a key role in shaking the foundations of UPA-2 ahead of the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.

Sukhinder, whose father died last year, has been handling all political campaigns of the former chief minister and his MP son Deepender Hooda. He is marrying Manisha, a girl from a Punjabi family settled in Delhi.

Others who attended the event included President Pranab Mukherjee, VicePresident Hamid Ansari, for mer PM Manmohan Singh, Union ministers Rajnath Singh, Piyush Goyal and Mahesh Sharma, senior Congress functionaries Janardhan Dwivedi, Oscar Farnandes, former Rajas han CM Ashok Gehlot, former Delhi CM Sheila Dikshit and various Haryana minis ers, MPs and MLAs.

Bhupinder Hooda had called up Khattar and Solanki last week to invite them for he reception.