Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal hosted a sanitation w𓄧orker and his family from Gujarat over lunch at his residence here on Monday, officials said.
Harsh Solanki, a sanitation worker from Gujarat, aꦕlong with his family, also visited a Delhi government school and a hospital.
Solanki presented a portrait of B R Ambedkar to Kejriwal, the officials said.
During the Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP) town hall with sanitation workers, predominantly from the Dalit community, in Gujarat's Ahmedabad on Sunday, Solanki ha🍰d invited Kejriwal to have dinner at his house.
In a statement, Kejriwal had said he would host Solanki and his family at his residenceꦿ over lunch.
"It was a very happy moment for us. They s𝓡at with my family and we had lunch.🌳 I am thankful to them for coming this far to meet me," Kejriwal told reporters.
Solanki said it was a proud 🅘moment for him to have been hosted by a political leader.
"In the last 75 years, he (Kejriwal) is the first leader to have called a Dalit for lunch. It is a big thing for me.🍰 I al♚so saw schools and hospitals and it felt very good. I had never thought that I would be standing with the chief minister sir," he said.
(With PTI inputs)
