The premier to do a Madison Square Garden-style pep talk on the West Coast.
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NEW YORK: India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi will emulate former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, with a visit to Silicon valley this September.
Modi, who is scheduled to attend the Annual General Assembly meeting of the United Nations in New York, in September, like he did last year, will travel to California, to address the Indian Diaspora there, and to meet top tech officials, according to reports.
The Indian American community in California has begun preparations in earnest to greet Modi, according to the Press Trust of India, with Modi scheduled to speak at a setting as grand as Madison Square Garden in Manhattan last year.
When Modi visits Silicon Valley he will become only the second Indian prime minister to do so, with the last being Nehru, way back in 1949.
“We have planned a community reception on the evening of September 27 at the SAP Center, San Jose, where close to 20,000 people are expected to gather to hear him speak,” Khanderao Kand of newly-formed Indo-American Community of West Coast USA, was quoted as saying by the PTI.
A meeting to discuss the upcoming visit of Modi was addressed by the Indian Ambassador to the US, Arun K. Singh, via video conference. Among others, it was attended by Consul General of India in San Francisco, Venkatesh Ashok, and Dr. Vijay Chauthaiwale, in-charge foreign relations department of the BJP.
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Nehru could NOT have visited Silicon Valley. The term Silicon Valley did not even exist before early seventies. Apparently, Nehru sycophancy at its best,
i know modi…but who is JAWAHAR NEHRU? never heard of him.
It is not fair to bring Nehru here because he was a man for self glory having with less-far-sighted vision of immaturity, he who visited US just after liberation of India after dividing India into two parts for the sake of POWER and proclaimed in America that a new democratic, secular peaceful India had emerged where people of all religion or caste can live with equality, while at that time millions of Bengali Hindus in East Pakistan and million of Hindu Punjabis in West Punjab were allowed to be killed by Pakistanis due to his recognition of religious sentiment in the formation of Pakistan keeping the eye to the chair of PM of India while Modi is going there for country’s growth and not for personal glory and power.