00:00News that's coming in from the Prime Minister's visit to Australia.
00:05Melbourne meets Modi, 30,000 voices, one grand welcome.
00:11Modi mania hits Melbourne as a big roar at Melbourne's Marvel Stadium
00:16to welcome the Prime Minister of India.
00:19This is the mega diaspora show down under.
00:23Indian diaspora has rolled out the red carpet for Prime Minister Narayanjur Modi
00:28as Australia goes Modi, Modi.
00:32Culture, cheers and a colossal welcome.
00:35On your screens right now, viewers, is the visuals from Modi's visit to Melbourne.
00:41The mega reception by the diaspora for Prime Minister Narendra Modi
00:46showing fully what India's soft power is really like.
00:52Thousands have gathered to meet Indian Prime Minister to watch him on stage
00:57around 30,000 people have gathered to hear Prime Minister Modi
01:02as he addresses perhaps the largest such gathering ever to happen in Australia by any leader.
01:10Melbourne needs Modi.
01:11It's really going to be history in the making right here in the heart of Jocelyn in Melbourne.
01:20I'm very, very excited today and I cannot wait to see more city Melbourne needs Modi.
01:43It's really going to be history in the making right here in the heart of Jocelyn in Melbourne.
01:51It's really going to be history in Melbourne.
01:57Melbourne needs Modi.
02:17Now on your screen viewers, the Prime Minister of India meeting dignitaries at Melbourne.
02:25He's being welcomed at Melbourne and live on your screen are those visuals.
02:39These visuals are from the Marvel Stadium in Melbourne where the Indian diaspora as well
02:47as the Australian leadership seem to have rolled out the red carpet for the Indian Prime Minister.
02:54Geeta Mohan is joining me on this story.
02:58Geeta, the Prime Minister, is in Melbourne.
03:00A major uranium deal is on the table.
03:04We're also seeing these huge welcome party really.
03:08Huge welcome, the soft power on full display.
03:11What more can you tell us about what's happening in this visit?
03:15Well, this is again a display of Frank Vijay Chathaywale
03:19who heads the Foreign Affairs Committee or desk of the Bharti Janta Party is there.
03:26He's a man who is key to all the Indian diaspora events across the world whenever Prime Minister Modi travels.
03:32And he's there standing with Prime Minister Modi.
03:35And if you see the visuals, this is a show of strength.
03:38You're looking at the top leadership of India and Australia standing together.
03:43And then Prime Minister Modi being welcomed by the Indian diaspora
03:47as also some of the key lawmakers who are there to attend the diaspora event.
03:51This is a massive event, unprecedented in many ways in one.
03:55In terms of the number of people who have gathered, 30,000 is what we are given to understand.
04:02That in all properties is one of the largest gatherings that Prime Minister Modi would be addressing abroad.
04:09This is the Marvel Stadium in Melbourne.
04:11So again, in many ways in one, it is quite a historic moment for Prime Minister Modi
04:16to be standing at the Marvel Stadium and addressing the Indian diaspora.
04:21And not just the Indian diaspora, but a key delegation when it comes to the top voices and influencers
04:29is also lawmakers from Australia who are there greeting Prime Minister Modi
04:34and welcoming him to the event.
04:37This is, again, another outreach of Prime Minister Modi when it comes to engaging the Indian community abroad.
04:46A soft power policy of India when it comes to ensuring that the Indian diaspora
04:52and Indian community abroad makes its voice and its presence felt.
04:58And he makes sure that they get the importance that should be accorded to a community
05:04that serves at the highest levels as also at the most critical levels and places and spaces in various countries.
05:13And Australia being one very important country where you have a huge Indian diaspora presence.
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