Vande Mataram and a carnival-like atmospere at the arena

November 17, 2014 12:31

The Ananda Math rendition of the Vande Mataram. Modi will begin his address -- the first public address in Australia.

On Sunday, the Modi Express', a special train carrying over 220 passengers who will attend Prime Minister Narendra Modi's first public lecture in Sydney, was flagged off on Sunday by an Australian minister in Melbourne.

Victorian Multicultural Minister Matthew Guy flagged off the train at Southern Cross station - the major railway station and transport hub for Melbourne -- amid huge fanfare of Modi who is the first Indian premier to visit the country in the last 28 years.

For the first time in the history of Melbourne, a train service was organised under the name of a prime minister.

A while ago, New South Wales Premier Mike Baird met the PM (pictured).

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