Modi UAE visit: Saudi govt to allot land for temple construction, tweets MEA spokesperson

August 16, 2015 23:00

PM Narendra Modi certainly scored a point with the expatriate Indians in UAE who were informed by a tweet by MEA Spokesperson Vikas Swarup at the end of Modi's first day in Saudi Arabia.

A long wait for the Indian community ends. On the occasion of PM's visit, UAE Govt decides to allot land for building a temple in Abu Dhabi: Swarup tweeted late in the night.

Modi had earlier in the day visited the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque, the third largest mosque in the world.

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