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Boris Johnson visits India, Gujarat announce deals worth £1 billion

IndiaBoris Johnson visits India, Gujarat announce deals worth £1 billion

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, on Thursday, arrived in Ahmadabad, Gujarat, to make deals that would create 11,000 jobs in Britain.

 

The UK PM’s schedule is all set out.  On day 1, the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson will be in Gujarat where he is set to announce investments in science and technology collaborations. He will meet PM Narendra Modi in Delhi on Friday.

On Friday, he will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi and hold talks on economic, security, and defense ties.  The UK prime minister wishes to strike new economic deals between Britain and its huge former colony worth over £1 billion in areas including software engineering and health. Downing Street had declared that it would seal two-way investment deals worth more than £1 billion ($1.3 billion), during Johnson’s visit to India, creating almost 11,000 jobs in Britain. The visit will “deepen the strategic trade, defense and people-to-people ties between our two countries”, the UK prime minister told his parliament before leaving London

He also seeks to persuade India away from Russia in response to the invasion of Ukraine. Johnson’s spokesman, Max Blain, maintained that Britain wants to “provide alternative options for defense procurement and energy for India to diversify its supply chains away from Russia” without lecturing the government on what course of action was best for them.”

 

Boris Johnson visited Mahatma Gandhi’s Sabarmati Ashram on Thursday morning. He was escorted by the Gujarat chief minister and was gifted with a copy of ‘The Spirit’s Pilgrimage’ written by Madeleine Slade (or Mirabehn), who was a British supporter of Indian independence and a disciple of Mahatma Gandhi.  Boris Johnson tries his hand at the ‘charkha’ at Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad, Gujarat.  After leaving Sabarmati Ashram, he wrote, ‘Such simple principles of truth and non-violence.”
Message left by Boris Johnson at the Gandhi Ashram in Sabarmati, Ahmedabad.

“It is an immense privilege to come to the Ashram of this extraordinary man, and to understand how he mobilized such simple principles of truth and non-violence to change the world for the better,” read the message by UK PM Boris Johnson at Gandhi Ashram, Sabarmati, Ahmedabad.

Boris Johnson in Gujarat, video displays the warm welcome!

 

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