The Mauritius Prime Minister comes to India on 3-day state visit

New Delhi, May 26: The Mauritian Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth arrived tp India on his three- day state. Mauritian PM welcomes by Upendra Kushwaha the Minister of State for Human Resource Development . This was his first state tour visit since he assumed office in January this year. On Saturday, Jugnauth will call on President Pranab Mukherjee and Vice President Hamid Ansari and hold delegation-level talks with his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi. External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, Defence and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu and Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan will also call on the visiting dignitary, who is a person of Indian origin. 
Jugnauth will also address a business event organised by industry lobbies CII, Ficci and Assocham later on Friday. His visit comes after the visit of then Mauritian Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam in May 2014 for the swearing in of the NDA government at the Centre. Modi visited the Indian Ocean island nation in March 2015. Jugnauth is being accompanied by Deputy Prime Minister Ivan Collendavelloo, and the cabinet and finance secretaries of the country. Mauritius visited homes to a large number of Indian origins who contracted as Indian workers in the 19th century to work in sugarcane plantations.