New Delhi: The IRCTC sent out nearly two crore emails to its customers listing 13 decisions taken by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to support Sikhs between December 8 and December 12, amid protests by farmers against new farm laws.

                The IRCTC officials said, they emailed “PM Modi and his Government’s special relationship with Sikh” to its customers the 47-page booklet as part of the Government’s “public interest” outreach. The booklets are in Hindi, English and Punjabi. The emails, which were discontinued on December 12, were sent to the entire database of IRCTC, where passengers’ key in their details while booking tickets, the officials said.

The IRCTC in a statement said that “The mails have been sent to all, irrespective of any particular community. This is not the first instance. Earlier also such activities have been undertaken by IRCTC to promote government welfare schemes in public interest”. “IRCTC sent out 1.9 crore emails in five days till October 12,” a source in the national transporter said. Officials said the move to send the emails was a conscious choice as part of a communication strategy for public interest.

The booklet was released by Union Ministers Prakash Javadekar and Hardeep Singh Puri on Guru Nanak Jayanti on December 1.