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| Edited By: DNA Web Team |Source: DNA webdesk |Updated: Feb 19, 2018, 02:31 PM IST
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited the Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad on Monday. Trudeau, accompanied by his wife Sophie Gregoire, his three children - Xavier, Ella-Grace, and Hadrien - was presented with several gifts, including books on Mahatma Gandhi.
On his visit to one of the residences of Mahatma Gandhi, Trudeau wrote in the visitors' book that it was "a beautiful place of peace, humility and truth, that is as needed today as it ever was." He later visited Akshardham temple in Gandhinagar.
Trudeau's visit to Gujarat is the first by a Canadian prime minister.
He had visited Taj Mahal in Agra on the second day of his India visit on Sunday. He also visited a wildlife sanctuary in Mathura's Churmura with his family.
The Canadian Prime Minister's week-long state visit to India includes stops in Agra, Amritsar, Ahmedabad, Mumbai, and New Delhi.
A number of Trudeau's cabinet colleagues including Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland, Science and Economic Development Minister Navdeep Bains, Defence Minister Harjit Singh Sajjan, Science and Sports Minister Kirsty Duncan and Infrastructure Minister Amarjeet Sohi are also visiting India.
Trudeau will hold wide-ranging talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on February 23. The next day, he is scheduled to address a conference of young change-makers before wrapping up his visit.
The ties between India and Canada have been on an upswing. Approximately 1.4 million Canadians are of Indian heritage and India is Canada's second largest source of immigrants.
Canada is also a leading education destination for Indian students, and India is the second largest source of international students, an estimated 124,000 in 2017, as per official figures.
Here are the Live updates of Trudeau's India visit:
