Ajmer, August 08: With the two all set to tie the nuptial knot soon, former Union Minister Shashi Tharoor and his long-time friend Sunanda Pushkar today visited the famous shrine of sufi saint Khawaja Garib Nawaaj and a temple here today.
Seeking blessings before the wedlock, the two offered chader and roses at the shrine, performed Puja at the Pushkar Sarovar and visited the Brahma temple.
“Pray for our happiness and peaceful life. We need a lot of blessings,” Sunanda, a Dubai-based businesswoman, told mediapersons.
To a queston on their soon-to-be-held marriage, the former Minister of State for External Affairs who quit his post in the wake of IPL Kochi row, said the the date would be fixed soon.
On Sunday, Tharoor, a former UN diplomat-turned-MP, and Sunanda visited Shirdi and the revered Shani Shingnapur shrine in Maharashtra’s Ahmednagar district and performed rituals sitting side-by-side.
–Agencies