CM of Assam Sarbananda Sonowal attended banquet hosted in honour of US President Trump

GUWAHATI: Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal along with other important dignitaries attended a banquet hosted in honour of President of the United States of America Donald Trump.

Chief Ministers of Karnataka CM B. S. Yediyurappa, Telengana CM K Chandrasekhar Rao and Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar were als0 invited for the event.

Assam CM tweeted

https://twitter.com/sarbanandsonwal/status/1232362231163170816

It is worth mentioning that Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad has declined the invitation to attend the dinner invitation extended by the President Kovind in honor of visiting US President. Sources close to the Congress leader said, “since no invitation has been extended to Chairman of the Congress Parliamentary Party (CPP) Sonia Gandhi, so it would not be appropriate for him to attend the function.”

Trump during his two day visit to India discussed business-related issues with India’s policy makers and industrialists.

On the second and final day of his state visit to India, the President discussed the potential of trade, investment, protection of intellectual property rights, H1B visas, along with India’s energy security, with policy makers here. Importantly, the discussions centered around trade-related issues, with both sides, showing optimism to reach a much-awaited trade deal.

According to Trump, since he assumed office, US exports to India are up nearly 60 per cent and “exports of high-quality American energy have grown by 500 per cent”. At present, India has a trade surplus with the US, and it is understood that discussions were held to bring down this down. The US President further said that as India grows, “so do its energy needs.”

“Yesterday, Exxon Mobil signed a deal to improve India’s natural gas distribution network so that the US can export even more LNG to India,” he noted.

Lately, the US has emerged as a large LNG exporter to India.

Moreover, the two sides discussed the importance of a secure 5G wireless network.

Trump said that the CAA did not figure in his talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Responding to a query during the media briefing on Tuesday, the last day of his two-day State visit to India, Trump said that the CAA is an internal matter of India.

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