The Prime Minister, during his stay in Gujarat, also participated in closed-door meeting with prominent business leaders from the state.
Ahmedabad: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who reached Ahmedabad on Thursday morning, tried his ‘hand on’ the iconic charkha at Mahatma Gandhi’s Ashram in Sabarmati. The UK PM, in the visitor’s book, wrote, “It is an immense privilege to come to the Ashram of this extraordinary man, and to understand how he mobilised such simple principles of truth and non-violence to change the world for the better.”
Meanwhile he was a given a grand welcome in local flavor by people of the state after landing in Ahmedabad in morning to start his India visit. Four kilometres’ long route from the airport to the hotel where Johnson had to reach first was decorated and people were seen welcoming him.
At the airport, he was received by Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel and Governor Acharya Devvrat besides senior bureaucrat. At the airport, he was greeted by people performing traditional Gujarati dances and music at the airport and along the road as his convoy headed for the hotel.
Gujarat authorities had erected a total of 40 platforms at certain intervals on the entire four-km carriageway starting from the Airport Circle to the hotel located along Ashram Road. He was welcomed and greeted with same flavor the hotel also.
The Prime Minister, during his stay in Gujarat, also participated in closed-door meeting with prominent business leaders from the state.
He, too, will visit a manufacturing facility of JCB, a British construction equipment firm, near Halol in Panchmahal district. He will also visit Gujarat Biotechnology University in Gandhinagar. The university is being constructed in cooperation with the UK’s University of Edinburgh and presently it is under construction. Johnson will also pay a visit to the Akshardham temple in Gandhinagar before leaving for New Delhi.
