Vegetarian diet no trouble for PM Narendra Modi abroad

NEW DELHI: Way to a man’s heart often goes through stomach is an old saying. For PM Narendra Modi, a strict vegetarian, it has been rather smooth during his several foreign trips since May 2014 even in countries where veg food is otherwise a tough choice.

Recently, when the Prime Minister made an “unscheduled stopover” at Lahore, his Pakistani host arranged pure vegetarian food and this included choicest Pakoras besides Kashmiri tea.

Modi’s favourite dish ‘Saag’ was also prepared for him at Jati Umrah residence of his Pakistani PM Nawaz Sharif.

Two days before his Lahore sojourn, Russian President Vladimir Putin had laid down a lavish vegetarian meal at the private dinner for Modi at the Kremlin.

Earlier in July the banquet hosted in honour of the PM at Tashkent, Uzbekistan, was marked by a host of vegetarian dishes accompanied by Bollywood music. Even on the PM’s previous trips to China, France and Germany, food menus were largely vegetarian.