US to take part in Vibrant Gujarat Summit 2015

GANDHINAGAR: With the US opening its arms to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the bonhomie is now percolating down to the state level as well. The US now will be the eighth country to partner Vibrant Gujarat Global Investors’ Summit (VGGIS) 2015 after Australia, Canada, Japan, Netherlands, Singapore, South Africa and United Kingdom.

Chief minister Anandiben Patel has in a letter written to the US Ambassador in India Kathelene Stephens accepted the US offer to partner the event. It may be mentioned here that US Consul General for Mumbai Tom Vajda had said that the US desires to partner the biennial flagship event of the Gujarat government, while attending a seminar in Gandhinagar.

Recently, Gujarat government too had sent two delegations to US and according to the government, the delagations have played constructive role in strengthening the relation between the US and Gujarat.

According to the government spokespersons, Saurabh Patel, the US India Business Counsil (USBIC) will also send a high-level delegation as well as senior CEOs affiliated to the body to the event scheduled for January next year.

The event was started by Narendra Modi in his capacity as Gujarat chief minister and this will the first one to be held after his departure from Gujarat.

However, he continues to take keen interest in the event and Gujarat finance minister Saurabh Patel has visited Delhi several times recently in this connection.