UK minister in India to showcase post-Brexit 'golden era'

August 12, 2016 08:41

Britain's senior-most Indian-origin Cabinet minister Priti Patel is set to meet the top Indian leadership during her three-day India visit starting today with a message of post-Brexit "golden era" for Indo-UK ties.

India is among Patel's first major overseas visits within weeks of assuming charge as the UK's international development minister under the new Theresa May-led government.

"I look at this (Britain's vote to leave the Europe Union) from a very optimistic point of view and it is very much about

the art of the possible. We are entering a golden era effectively," Patel said on the eve of her visit.

"It is business as usual. If anything, there will be new opportunities when it comes to trade, growing new relationships and taking the economic relationship to a new level," she said in reference to the message she wanted to convey in India following the EU referendum.

In New Delhi, Patel has meetings scheduled with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Minister Rajiv Pratap Rudy.

She will also be visiting Bhopal, where she will be hosted by Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan to review some of the work her Department for International Development (DfID) has been doing on the ground.

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