A meal to remember

April 25, 2015 12:00 am | Updated 05:48 am IST - HYDERABAD:

The first plenary of the party that was born 14 years ago and is the first to form the Government in Telangana will be talked about for more reasons than one.

Normal citizens may complain about the inconvenience caused to their everyday movement because of traffic restrictions and harassment by overzealous policemen on duty. People may have faced problems getting in and out of the venue but the food, flavour and hospitality will certainly be remembered for a while.

The catering, dining arrangements were made at the Nizam College grounds across the road from the Lal Bahadur stadium and as soon as the inaugural session was over, the crowd made a beeline for the stadium because they were hungry. Lunch arrangements were made, reportedly for about 50,000 people. Actually, the preparation of the food started late last evening itself, considering the spread and the volume of people expected to attend the plenary.

The menu was fairly exhaustive with seven non-vegetarian dishes including ‘chicken shorba’, green chicken fry, ‘natukodi shorba’, ‘egg pulusu’, mutton curry, liver fry and ‘boti fry’. For the vegetarians, it was only four – ‘pachchi pulusu’, ‘Gangavalli mango dal’, ‘bagara baingan’ and aloo tomato kurma. There was ‘bagara rice’, plain rice and ‘raitha’ go with the dishes.

But more interesting and complex than the preparation of dishes was the catering arrangements that were necessitated considering the size of the gathering. A massive covered dining space was created in the main ground of the college for the ‘aam junta’ and progressively, there were separate sections for women, party leaders, MLAs and MPs.

A space was reserved for the print and electronic media, right next to which there was an exclusive, all-important VVIP section for the Chief Minister, the Deputy Chief Minister and other Ministers. The organisers said a few hundred people were drafted for duty, just to maintain the supply chain, apart from stewards to serve the VVIPs!

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