Despite heavy rains bringing the American city to a standstill, organisers are upbeat about hosting Indian prime minister Narendra Modi’s biggest-ever rally in the country.
Modi will address a crowd of over 50,000 Indian-Americans on Sept. 22 at the NRG Stadium, at an event hosted by Texas India (TI) Forum. Houston is home to over 1,30,000 Indian-Americans, as per some estimates.
The event will also be attended by US president Donald Trump, making it the first time ever that the two heads of the states would meet in the US outside of Washington DC or New York, where the United Nations is headquartered.
“It will be a great opportunity to emphasise the strong ties between the people of the United States and India, to reaffirm the strategic partnership between the world’s oldest and largest democracies, and to discuss ways to deepen their energy and trade relationship,” White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham said earlier this week.
In September 2015, PM Modi had addressed a massive rally in San Jose, his second in the US, attended by 19,000 people. This time, the crowd is estimated to be more than double of that. Some estimates say that this is not only the largest-ever live audience for an Indian prime minister in North America, but also the largest for a foreign dignitary in the US.
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