British PM Johnson arrives in India, given grand welcome in Ahmedabad
Ahmedabad: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson arrived in Ahmedabad on Thursday morning to visit India, and was accorded a grand welcome along the four-kilometer route to the airport.
Johnson was received by the Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel and Governor Acharya Devvrat.
Senior state officials and ministers were also present to receive him.
The British Prime Minister was greeted by a group of traditional dancers and musicians at the airport and his convoy headed for the hotel.
The `roadshow ‘opened at the airport and passed through Ashram Road via Dafnala and the Riverfront.
As many as 40 platforms were erected at regular intervals on the four-km stretch of the five-star hotel on the Ashram Road, where again troupes performed traditional Indian dances to welcome Johnson.
During his day-long stay in Gujarat, the British prime minister is scheduled for a closed-door meeting with prominent business leaders from the state, sources said.
After that, he will head for the JCB, a British construction equipment company, near Halol in the Panchmahal district.
The British PM will visit the UK’s University of Edinburgh, a Gujarat government release said today.
The British PM would visit the famous Akshardham Temple in the Swaminarayan Sect and wind up in Gandhinagar for his Gujarat visit and leave New Delhi.
In Delhi, Johnson will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday.
