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If India is gushing about something right now, it is the Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau’s visit to India along with this wife Sophie Gregoire Trudeau and children Hadrien, Ella-Grace Margaret and Xavier James Trudeau. The Trudeaus landed in Delhi as the first stop of their week-long visit to India, which is expected to deepen the ties between India and Canada. Making a halt at Agra on the first day of their visit, he visited the iconic Taj Mahal along with his family. With a nostalgic caption to his image on his personal Instagram page, he recollected his first trip to Taj Mahal that he made almost 35 years ago.
J’avais environ l’âge de Xav quand j’ai visité le Taj Mahal pour la première fois, il y a presque 35 ans. C’est incroyable de pouvoir être de retour ici avec lui et toute la famille le premier jour de notre voyage en Inde.Following their visit to Taj Mahal, the Trudeaus flew to Gujarat and visited Mahatma Gandhi’s Sabarmati Ashram and paid respect in front of a portrait of Mahatma Gandhi. During his visit to Gujarat, he, along with his family also visited the famous Akshardham Mandir, which is considered to be an architectural marvel which was built from 6,000 metric tons of pink sandstone. He and his sons, along with the religious leaders paid tribute to Swaminarayan and his life and teachings at Gandhinagar.
Making Mumbai the next stop on his visit to India, he met with various leading business leaders of India including Kumar Mangalam Birla, Chairman of Aditya Birla Group, Natarajan Chandrasekaran, Chairman of Tata Sons, Salil Parekh, CEO of Infosys and Chanda Kochhar, CEO of ICICI Bank, and spoke about the importance and benefits of women empowerment in a country. They spoke about the key investments that these Indian business tycoons have made in Canada, resulting in increased number of jobs for Canadians and more than $1.1 billion in contracts and deals. Though this is a great news for Canada and its people, it is no less of a news for us as it has strengthened the Indo-Canadian partnership to a greater extent.
Really insightful session with the leaders at our roundtable on women in business today in Mumbai with @ICICIBank CEO Chanda Kochhar. When governments support women who push their dreams forward and succeed, we all benefit. pic.twitter.com/KSxRjugmS2
— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) February 20, 2018
Today’s announcements mean more than 5,800 new jobs in Canada, and more than $1 billion in contracts and deals. Great news for the Canada-India relationship. pic.twitter.com/iAjAprMizb
— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) February 20, 2018
While a meeting with PM Modi is scheduled on February 23, where the two leaders are expected to focus on trade, defense, civil nuclear cooperation, space and education, he made up time to meet the notable faces of Hindi film industry, while he was in Mumbai. While he was decked up in a traditional Indian Sherwani, his wife Sophie draped a detailing off-white saree, making the heads turn. Many celebrities from the Bollywood film industry attended the meeting including Farhan Akhtar, R Madhavan, Anupam Kher, Kalkhi Kochelin and the king of Bollywood, SRK himself. This marked and celebrated a stronger and new co-production opportunities between Bollywood and the Canadian film industry.
@JustinTrudeau such a pleasure and honour meeting you sir. Your relatability, grace and charm was most endearing and its easy to see why you are the Pride and toast of Canada.Have a lovely rest of the tour.
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— Ranganathan Madhavan (@ActorMadhavan) February 21, 2018
Although people on social media can’t stop gushing about the Canadian Prime Minister’s meeting with the Bollywood celebrities, the Trudeaus have landed in Amritsar, as the next destination of their week-long India visit. His family and he were received by Hardeep Singh Puri and Navjot Singh Sidhu at the airport. Later, he visited the Golden Temple along with his family and attended langar, the community kitchen at the Golden Temple. It is stated that the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee has arranged a specially crafted 24-carat gold-plated portrait of the shrine and a gold-plated ‘Siri Sahib” (a small six-inch sword) to be presented to the Canadian Prime Minister along with ‘siropa’ (robe of honor) and a shawl.
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