Hugplomacy: PM Narendra Modi greets Justin Trudeau with a hug
New Delhi : Amid snubbing reports across media, Prime Minister Narendra Modi greeted his Canadian counterpart with a warm hug at the reception ceremony hosted at the Rashtrapati Bhavan.
After Justin Trudeau, his wife Sophie, and children Xavier, Ella-Grace and Hadrien, alighted from a car on the forecourt of the Rashtrapati Bhavan. Modi first shook hands with Trudeau and then hugged him.
On Thursday evening, PM Narendra Modi broke his silence on Twitter and wrote he is looking forward for the bilateral meeting on Friday.
"I appreciate his (Trudeau's) deep commitment to ties between our two countries," Modi tweeted.
On Thursday, the Indian leader had posted a picture of him playfully tweaking Elle-Grace's ears with Trudeau smilingly looking on during a visit to Canada in 2015.
"I particularly look forward to meeting his children Xavier, Ella-Grace, and Hadrien," Modi said in his tweet.
On a week-long visit to India, Trudeau has visited Agra, Ahmedabad, Mumbai and Amritsar.
