Modi Embarks On 5-Day U.S. Visit Today

Modi will be hosted for tea by Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Joe Boehner and more than 50 lawmakers during his stay either in New York or Washington. In Washington, there is a very high level of expectations from Modi's meeting with President Obama.

Obama has gone out of his way to host a rare private dinner for Modi at the White House on September 29, so as to establish a personal relationship with the Indian leader.

Ahead of his main summit at the White House on September 30, Modi would visit the Martin Luther King Memorial and Lincoln Memorial in Washington and pay floral tribute to Mahatma Gandhi's statue in front of the Indian Embassy.

This would be for the first time that an Indian prime minister would have so many public and private engagements during a U.S. visit.

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