US not planning to invite Narendra Modi

Ahmedabad: The consul general of the US Paul Folmsbee said on the opening day of the Vibrant Gujarat 2011 Summit that there are no plans to call Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi to the country.

Folmsbee’s remarks have once again made it clear that Modi’s US Visa dream would remain unfulfilled even the coming days, though the US Embassy for the first time formally participated in the Gujarat government’s summit, Folmsbee categorically denied any plans to invite Modi to the US for any purpose.

When asked whether the team from US Consulate would be meeting the Gujarat CM Narendra Modi and whether there are any plans to allow Modi a US Visa, which has been denied to him considering the 2002 post-Godhra carnage and its implications, he said, “Well, we have been organising such events in USA, we don’t intend to call the Gujarat CM to the US and we have not thought