India’s growth journey is unstoppable: Modi at Wembley

Few hundred protesters today staged a demonstration outside Downing Street here against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the UK. Other groups of authors and parliamentarians have petitioned the UK Prime Minister David Cameron to raise their concerns over freedom of speech and human rights with the Indian government during PM Modi’s three-day visit. “We want to develop our railway stations in the public-private partnership mode”, Modi said, adding: “Defence manufacturing is also the backbone of our “Make in India” initiative”.

Modi claimed expenditure by British companies in India would be a “winwin relationship” for both places as he discussed of investment options in alternative and infrastructure energy industries. The United Kingdom is already the largest investor in India among G20 countries while India invests more in the United Kingdom than it does in the rest of the European Union combined.

Mr Ladwa said Mr Modi had a “vision for India” which had resulted in his huge popularity.

Chinese President Xi Jinping, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, Brazil President Dilma Rousseff and Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong have already arrived in Antalya for the summit.

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.

“Above all, I can see that Prime Minister Modi is deadly serious about his plans to transform India and Britain can play a big part in helping him to do that”.

Mr Cameron, how was dinner with Mr Modi last night?

While Prime Minister Modi has begun the second day of his three-day visit, deals worth almost 9.2 billion pounds have already been announced, which include 28 business-to-business agreements.

One man carried a sign branding Mr Modi “a terrorist”, while another protester called for “Indian forces out of Kashmir”.

Ahead of the visit, I spoke to the Indian High Commissioner, Ranjan Mathai, who has been busy organising the trip.