Indian PM Addresses Packed Wembley Rally

Cameron said Modi’s visit cemented a “modern, dynamic partnership” between the world’s fifth-largest economy – Britain – and India, which will soon rank third.

The Congress has blamed the Modi government and the BJP and allied groups for what it says is rising intolerance in the country.

Modi’s comments, delivered via a translater, were seized on by campaigners wanting Britain to stay in the EU.

In his opening remarks, British Prime Minister Cameron referred to Prime Minister Modi’s vision and intent for transforming India.

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British Prime Minister David Cameron, who also addressed the forum meeting, articulated a similar position at the meeting, attended by around 30 chief executives from the two sides. Modi was hosted by Cameron to a private dinner on Thursday at the Chequers and he spent the night there.

Modi also spoke before Britain’s House of Commons in Parliament on Thursday, had dinner at Cameron’s 16th-century Buckinghamshire mansion and Friday, was greeted by the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh at Buckingham Palace.

Police officers lined up around the protesters as Mr Modi’s supporters left the stadium.

Emphasising that the two main challenges facing the world were terrorism and global warming, Modi called for collective responsibility to tackle them.

Before Modi took to the stage, the audience was treated to a lavish spectacle featuring rapper Jay Sean, the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Scottish bagpipers.

Nirmala Rajasingam, one of the protest organisers, said: “We have been protesting against the Modi government for a very long time because the matters of Gujarat atrocities have not been settled yet. There’s a burgeoning middle class, there is an aspirational upper class that wants to educate its kids overseas and it’s an opportunity to tap into what has become a big economic market”, the Prime Minister said. Wherever people of India have gone, they live in harmony.