Rahul Gandhi US tour: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will be travelling to the United States on May 31, sources said. He will be there for a week. Rahul Gandhi's visited Cambridge University in March where he remarked that Indian democracy is under attack and several politicians, including himself, are under surveillance.
The Congress leader, who is planning to stay in the US for a week, will be addressing a gathering which will be attended by at least 6000 people from Indian diaspora at Madison Sqaure on June 4.
According to his itinerary, he will be visiting California also where he will participate in a university event. He will be going to Washington as well.
Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi focussed had delivered lecture at a prestigious University of Cambridge on the "art of listening" and called for a new thinking to promote a democratic environment globally, as opposed to a coercive one.
PM Modi's State Visit
Rahul Gandhi tour of the United States will come ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's first state visit to the United States on June 22.
The Ministry of External Affairs said PM Modi has been invited by President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden and he will attend a state dinner on June 22.
It said the visit offers a "valuable opportunity" for the two countries to further deepen their comprehensive and forward-looking global strategic partnership.
It said the visit offers a "valuable opportunity" for the two countries to further deepen their comprehensive and forward-looking global strategic partnership.
"The upcoming visit will affirm the deep and close partnership between the United States and India and the warm bonds of family and friendship that link Americans and Indians together. The visit will strengthen our two countries’ shared commitment to a free, open, prosperous, and secure Indo-Pacific and our shared resolve to elevate our strategic technology partnership, including in defense, clean energy, and space," White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre had said in a statement while announcing the visit.
PM Modi had visited the US in September 2021
