Nitish to attend NRI conclave in Mauritius next month
The Bihar Chief Minister has been invited as the chief guest to attend the 183rd edition of NRI conclave organised by the Mauritius government.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar will be in Mauritius from November 1 to 4 to attend the NRI conclave to be held there. This will be Nitish's second visit to Mauritius since he became chief ninister in 2005. He last visited Mauritius in 2007.
The Bihar Chief Minister has been invited as the chief guest to attend the 183rd edition of NRI conclave organised by the Mauritius government.
Nitish finalized his visit to the island country after he met Jagdishwar Govardhan, the High Commissioner of Mauritius to India on 26 September in Patna. The High Commissioner in his meeting with the Bihar Chief Minister had invited him to his country to attend the NRI conclave there on 3rd November.
As per the draft itinerary that has been prepared for the Chief Minister's visit, Nitish will be landing in Port Louis, the capital of Mauritius on November 2 and will meet the President Amina Garib Fakim and Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth.
The same day in the evening, Nitish will meet people from Bihar who have settled in Mauritius. On November 4, Nitish will tour the Ramayan circuit in the country.
Around 60 per cent of the population of Mauritius is of Indian origin, and most of them are from Bihar with Bhojpuri being their mother tongue.
Interestingly, in May this year, Nitish Kumar had skipped a meeting with Congress President Sonia Gandhi in Delhi to attend a lunch on meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi which was given in honour of the visiting Mauritius Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth. This meeting happened at a time when political crisis was looming large in Bihar.