Monday (September 16): At the Houston’s mega “Howdy, Modi!” event on September 22, US President Donald Trump is going to join Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the White House said on Sunday.
“Howdy”, short for ‘How do you do?’, is a friendly greeting commonly used in southwestern United States.
The “Howdy, Modi! Shared Dreams, Bright Futures” event to be held at the sprawling NRG Stadium in Houston. This is for the first time in recent history that the leaders of the “two largest democracies” would be addressing a joint rally anywhere in the world. More than 50,000 Indian-Americans from across the US have registered for the September 22 mega event.
White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham said, “It (Modi-Trump joint rally) will be a great opportunity to emphasize the strong ties between the people of the United States and India, to reaffirm the strategic partnership between the world’s oldest and largest democracies, and to discuss ways to deepen their energy and trade relationship.”
This would also be the first time that an American president would be addressing thousands of Indian-Americans at one place in the US.
So far, Trump is the only presidential candidate to address the Indian-Americans solely during an election year. In his address, Trump had said that if elected, he would be the best friend of India in the White House.
The Houston event will be Modi’s third major address to the Indian-American community after he became the prime minister in 2014 and the first after his re-election in May. The previous two were at the Madison Square Garden in New York in 2014 and the Silicon Valley in 2016. Both the events were attended by more than 20,000 people.
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