Clothes maketh the ministers
By IANSFriday, May 22, 2009
It was a touch of back home for most of the 19 ministers who made sure they wore something from their states — be it the traditional ‘gamusa’ that Assam’s B.K. Handique threw over his dhoti-kurta, or West Bengal’s Pranab Mukherjee who draped an ‘uttareya’ over his kurta and dhoti.
Ambika Soni, who is often seen in a sari, was wearing a crisp white salwar kurta from her native state Punjab and P. Chidambaram from Tamil Nadu was clad in his customary veshti.
Most of the men chose to wear a kurta-pyjama or dhoti, but some were in the Nehru jacket. Meira Kumar and Mamata Banerjee wore saris, with the latter as usual making little concession for the occasion with a white, green border cotton drape.
Coincidentally, President Patil was also in white and green - except hers was a rich, silk with broad, intricate zari border.
