PM Modi US Visit News: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address a major community event in New York on September 22 during his visit to the city to attend the UN Future Summit. Around 15,000 people are expected to attend the gathering, which will be 'unique and different' from previous events in terms of its format, flow, and theme.

The theme of the event is 'Modi & US: Progress Together', and its stated purpose is to celebrate the 'cultural ethos' of India and the US and 'seeing the world as one family, diversity as a strength, and working together to build a better world for the well-being of all people and the planet'.

'Around 15,000 people are expected to attend this gathering'

A person familiar with the developments said the gathering, expected to be attended by around 15,000 people, will be "unique and different" in terms of its format, flow, and theme compared to previous events addressed by Modi in the US. "The main objective of the event is to celebrate the diaspora community, their progress and future, and ties with India," he said.

This is the fifth time Modi will address the Indian community in the US at an event. In 2014, he delivered a speech at New York's Madison Square Garden, attended by tens of thousands of Indian-Americans and dozens of elected officials, including Congressional representatives and senators. In 2015, he addressed Indians in San Jose, California, focusing on the tech community in Silicon Valley and political leadership on the West Coast. In 2017, Modi spoke to community organization leaders at a smaller event in Washington DC. In 2019, a year before the last presidential elections, Modi and then-US President Donald Trump addressed the largest-ever gathering of Indian-Americans in Houston.

During his state visit to the US last year, 8,000 Indian-Americans attended the formal reception held at the White House, while Modi spoke to Indian-American professionals at the Kennedy Center and addressed another community event at the Reagan Center in Washington DC, both events were held on a much smaller scale.

'When the Indian-American dimension is very strong in the US elections'

This year, Modi's event comes at a time when the Indian-American dimension in the US election is very strong. Kamala Harris, the Democratic candidate for president, identifies herself as both Black-American and Indian-American; her mother was Tamil and emigrated from India in 1958.