The Government has spent Rs 446.52 crore on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s foreign visits in the last five financial years.

V Muraleedharan, Minister of State for External Affairs, informed the Lok Sabha that Rs 121.85 crore was spent on prime minister’s foreign visits in 2015-16 financial year, followed by Rs 78.52 crore in 2016-17 and Rs 99.90 crore in 2017-18.

The government spent Rs 100.02 crore in 2018-19 and it has spent Rs 46.23 crores so far in 2019-20.

Muraleedharan was responding to a question from Malook Nagar of the BSP in Lok Sabha.