After Chinese President Xi Jinping and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Gujarat is set to witness visit of one more top international politician Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel on January 17 in the span of little over three years.
Visit of Netanyahu will kick-start with a mega road show with Prime Minister Narendra Modi from Ahmedabad Airport to Sabarmati Ashram. Already Modi had hosted two dignitaries – Jinping and Abe in similar style in the year 2014 and 2016 respectively.
The Israeli PM will pay visit to Sabarmati Ashram and after that he will fly to nearby town Bavala using chopper where he will inaugurate a start-up support center i-create in presence of nearly 1000 top industrialists.
Centre of Excellence Vegetable farming will also be inaugurated in presence of both the Prime Ministers at Vadrad village of North Gujarat on the same day. One more Centre of Excellence on dates will be opened by Modi and Netanyahu using remote control. The centre is situated at Kukama village in bordering Kutch district.
In view of visit of high profile dignitaries a high-level meeting, chaired by Gujarat’s Chief Secretary JN Singh, was convened on Monday at State secretariat to plan for the visit. Sources close to the development said that preparation for resurfacing of roads enroute the road-show would be completed in the next week.