'Howdy, Modi' event in Houston sold out, over 50,000 people register

The community event to be tended to by Prime Minister Narendra Modi here one month from now has been sold out with more than 50,000 people enlisting for the program.

PM Modi is scheduled to visit the US one month from now to go to the United Nations General Assembly on September 27, preceding which he will travel to Houston to meet the main organizations, political and network pioneers here in Houston, the fourth biggest city with a populace of more than 130,000 Indian-Americans.

“In the interest of a large number of Indian-Americans in Texas, and as co-chair of the Senate India Caucus, I welcome Prime Minister Modi to Houston", said by US Senator John Cornyn.

Houston, which has one of the biggest concentrations of more than 5,00,000 Indian American people group in the US, is the vitality capital of the world. energy security is a need a priority area for the Prime Minister.

"India keeps on being a key security and economic accomplice of the United States, and I anticipate seeing that relationship reinforce with his visit to Texas", Cornym said.

In 2019 to date, India is Houston's fourth biggest trading partner, simply behind Brazil, China and Mexico. From 2009 to 2018, trade among Houston and India arrived at the midpoint of US$ 4.8 billion every year and was esteemed at US$ 7.2 billion out of 2018.

This will be Modi's third significant location to the Indian American people group after he became the Prime Minister in 2014 and the first after his re-election in May.

The past 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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