Sachin Pilot’s annual Kisan lunch is now getting noticed as much as the annual mango parties thrown by Salman Khurshid. This week, Pilot hosted his annual lunch and it was all straight from the farm. Though called a Kisan lunch, there were no farmers around. It only meant, as someone explained, that it had food from his village’s farm. The spread this time included the usual affair of sarson ka saag and bajre ki roti, a bowl of butter, some gur, and a whole lot of carrot and turnip for salad. There was butter milk too, along with guavas for dessert.
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