PM Narendra Modi leaves for Sydney

November 17, 2014 08:25

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today left for Sydney at the end of his visit to Brisbane after attending the G20 Summit.

Modi, who is the first prime minister to visit Australia in 28 years after Rajiv Gandhi, left for Sydney on the second leg of his four-city tour of this country. He will be on a whirlwind six-hour visit to Sydney before proceeding to Canberra tonight and later to Melbourne.

"Modi fever grips Sydney," the Canberra Times said yesterday in a headline while carrying a report on its online edition.

"The city will get a dose of Modi-mania when the Indian Prime Minister makes a quick-fire, high-energy visit," it said.

More than 16,000 members of the Indian diaspora will pack Allphones Arena at Olympic Park to salute Modi at a community reception. About 5,000 more are expected to be watching the evening event on big screens outside.

More than 200 Modi fans left Melbourne bound for Allphones Arena tonight on a specially a chartered train dubbed the "Modi Express."

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