PM Modi, while congratulating Harris, highlighted the historic ties between India and Ireland that are based on shared belief in democratic values. Harris became the youngest PM on Tuesday weeks after the surprise resignation of openly gay and Indian-origin PM Leo Varadkar.
Varadkar was previously Ireland's youngest Prime Minister at 38 and played a leading role in legalising same-sex marriage and repealing a ban on abortion. Harris, the higher education minister under Varadkar, was the only candidate to replace the latter as leader of the Fine Gael party.
Varadkar was the country’s youngest-ever leader when first elected, as well as Ireland’s first openly gay prime minister. Varadkar, whose mother is Irish and father is Indian, was also Ireland’s first biracial taoiseach.
The anti-immigration protesters chanting slogans like 'Ireland for the Irish' set buses and trams on fire, while looting shops and throwing bottles and rocks at the police. More than 400 police officers were deployed to control the situation as warnings against misinformation were issued.
US President Donald Trump greeted Irish PM with a 'namaste' instead of shaking hands amid coronavirus fears and rising cases of the deadly disease across the world.
Ireland's Indian-origin Prime Minister Leo Varadkar has suffered a huge setback in the general election as his liberal-conservative Fine Gael party took a battering in the face of an unprecedented surge in the fortunes of the nationalist party Sinn Fein.
London, Nov 17: With an Indian dentist's tragic death igniting protests over right to abortion in Ireland, Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny has said he is awaiting a report by an expert group on the
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