Ms Menon has accomplished greater than 2 lakh footplate hours piloting numerous trains
New Delhi:
Aiswarya S Menon, a senior assistant loco pilot of the Chennai Division of Southern Railway, will likely be amongst 8,000 particular company on the swearing-in ceremony of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his new authorities on Sunday, officers mentioned.
At the moment engaged on Vande Bharat trains, Ms Menon has accomplished greater than 2 lakh footplate hours piloting numerous trains such because the Vande Bharat Specific and Jan Shatabdi.
She has additionally labored on the Chennai-Vijayawada and Chennai-Coimbatore Vande Bharat Specific companies since their introduction.
Ms Menon has obtained accolades from senior officers for her agility, alertness, and complete information of railway signalling.
She will likely be amongst railway staff who’ve been invited to attend PM Modi’s third oath ceremony, to be held on the Rashtrapati Bhavan on Sunday night.
Asia’s First Loco Pilot To Attend PM Modi’s Oath Ceremony
Surekha Yadav, Asia’s first lady loco pilot, may also attend the oath-taking ceremony of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Ms Yadav, who’s piloting the Vande Bharat prepare from Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus-Solapur, is reportedly amongst ten loco pilots invited for the ceremony.
She turned India’s first feminine prepare driver in 1988 and can be the primary lady loco pilot of the semi-high pace Vande Bharat Specific.
Sanitation employees, transgenders, and labourers who labored on the Central Vista Undertaking may also be among the many particular company on the swearing-in ceremony of the brand new authorities, sources instructed NDTV.
Preparations are being made for over 8,000 company at Rashtrapati Bhavan, sources mentioned.
PM Modi’s Oath Ceremony On Sunday
Narendra Modi will take oath because the prime minister for a 3rd consecutive time period on Sunday night after President Droupadi Murmu invited him to type the federal government on Friday.
The president is scheduled to manage the oath of workplace and secrecy to the prime minister and different members of the Union Council of Ministers at 7:15 pm on Sunday on the Rashtrapati Bhavan.
Varied South Asian leaders have been invited to the ceremony. Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe have already confirmed their presence.
Invitations have additionally been reportedly despatched to Nepal Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’, his Bhutan counterpart Tshering Tobgay, and Mauritius PM Pravind Jugnauth.
In 2014, the leaders of the SAARC (South Asian Affiliation for Regional Cooperation) nations attended PM Modi’s first swearing-in ceremony, and in 2019, leaders of the BIMSTEC (Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Financial Cooperation) nations attended the occasion.
PM Modi is the second Indian to win a 3rd straight time period in energy after the nation’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Nonetheless, in contrast to Jawaharlal Nehru, it might be a coalition authorities because the BJP could not safe a majority by itself within the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
The celebration was decreased to 240 seats from its overwhelming majority of 303 in 2019. The BJP-led NDA, which had gained 352 parliamentary constituencies in 2019, has additionally come right down to 293 however is above the bulk mark of 272.
PM Modi and the BJP are counting on their allies to type the federal government. The 2 largest BJP companions are Chandrababu Naidu’s Telugu Desam Get together, which acquired 16 seats, and Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal United, which secured 12.