PM Narendra Modi gets invite to address US Joint Session

WASHINGTON: In a goodwill gesture, Speaker of US House of Representatives John Boehner has invited PM Narendra Modi to address a joint session of the US Congress at a date convenient to him.

However, Modi would not be able to address the Congress when he comes to Washington DC in the last week of September mainly because of the unpredictability of the schedule of both the House of Representatives and the Senate due to midterm elections in November.

More than 80 lawmakers had recently written to Boehner, urging him to invite Modi to address a joint session of the Congress.