<p>For Ireland Prime Minister Leo Varadkar it was Christmas and New Year festivities together in India.</p>.<p>"It was a very special moment," said a smiling Vadarkar said after being felicitated in Varad village.</p>.<p>The 40-year-old Varadkar's father Ashok Varadkar is from Mumbai and his mother Miriam is from the United Kingdom.</p>.<p>The Varadkars originally hail from Varad in Malvan tehsil in Sindhudurg district of coastal Konkan region of Maharashtra.</p>.<p>After to took over as the Irish premiere in June 2017, the Varadkar family based in Maharashtra had expressed the desire that he visits India. His father, a doctor, who moved to the UK in the late 60s, too wanted him to go to his roots.</p>.<p>Varadkar arrived in Goa on Saturday, and drove to Malvan on Sunday and spent overnight with the family. He also visited the temple of the village deity and took a walk in the coastal village. Later, he left for Goa, from where he would fly back to Ireland.</p>.<p>The entire family – his father Ashok Varadkar and his mother Miriam, sisters - Sofia and her husband Cainan, their children Nicholas and Susannah, and Sonia with her husband Johny and their kids Alex and Eric – besides Leo Varadkar’s partner Matt, were present.</p>.<p>"I am here with my parents, my sisters and their husbands, my partner and some grandchildren are here...so it is a big family visit," the Ireland PM said, adding that it was a "special moment" for him and his family. "I would like to visit again," he added.</p>.<p>There was no official protocol and he was in jeans and shirts, smiling and greeting the villagers with a "namaste" and mingling with them.</p>.<p>The Varadfamily made “a classical Malvani feast” for Leo which include pomfret cooked in Malvani style, the Konkani chicken rassa, with rice, chapatis, local mango pickles and dry chutneys.</p>.<p>“Leo Varadkar has come to India earlier at least four times, but this is for the travelled to the remote Varad,” his Mumbai-based relative Dipti Bhosale-Varadkar told reporters.</p>
<p>For Ireland Prime Minister Leo Varadkar it was Christmas and New Year festivities together in India.</p>.<p>"It was a very special moment," said a smiling Vadarkar said after being felicitated in Varad village.</p>.<p>The 40-year-old Varadkar's father Ashok Varadkar is from Mumbai and his mother Miriam is from the United Kingdom.</p>.<p>The Varadkars originally hail from Varad in Malvan tehsil in Sindhudurg district of coastal Konkan region of Maharashtra.</p>.<p>After to took over as the Irish premiere in June 2017, the Varadkar family based in Maharashtra had expressed the desire that he visits India. His father, a doctor, who moved to the UK in the late 60s, too wanted him to go to his roots.</p>.<p>Varadkar arrived in Goa on Saturday, and drove to Malvan on Sunday and spent overnight with the family. He also visited the temple of the village deity and took a walk in the coastal village. Later, he left for Goa, from where he would fly back to Ireland.</p>.<p>The entire family – his father Ashok Varadkar and his mother Miriam, sisters - Sofia and her husband Cainan, their children Nicholas and Susannah, and Sonia with her husband Johny and their kids Alex and Eric – besides Leo Varadkar’s partner Matt, were present.</p>.<p>"I am here with my parents, my sisters and their husbands, my partner and some grandchildren are here...so it is a big family visit," the Ireland PM said, adding that it was a "special moment" for him and his family. "I would like to visit again," he added.</p>.<p>There was no official protocol and he was in jeans and shirts, smiling and greeting the villagers with a "namaste" and mingling with them.</p>.<p>The Varadfamily made “a classical Malvani feast” for Leo which include pomfret cooked in Malvani style, the Konkani chicken rassa, with rice, chapatis, local mango pickles and dry chutneys.</p>.<p>“Leo Varadkar has come to India earlier at least four times, but this is for the travelled to the remote Varad,” his Mumbai-based relative Dipti Bhosale-Varadkar told reporters.</p>