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		</div><p>The sun-baked city of Ahmedabad was jostling with activity on Sunday, as workers cleaned roads, planted flowers and hoisted hundreds of billboards featuring US President Donald Trump, a day ahead of his maiden two-day visit to India.</p>
<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi has promised him a boisterous public reception, and hundreds of thousands of people in the north-western city are expected to greet Mr Trump on Monday for a roadshow leading to a massive rally at what has been touted as the world’s largest cricket stadium.</p>
<p>Mr Trump’s motorcade will travel amid cheers from a battery of carefully picked and vetted Modi loyalists and workers from his Bharatiya Janata Party, who will stand for hours alongside the neatly manicured 14-mile stretch of road to give Mr Trump a grand welcome.</p>
<p>Tens of thousands of police officers will be on hand to keep security tight and a new wall has been built in front of a slum, apparently to hide it from passers-by.</p>
<p>Monday’s event is the second act of growing bonhomie between Mr Trump and Mr Modi after they shared a stage last year in Houston at a rally called “Howdy, Modi!” that featured flashy Bollywood musical and dance numbers and was organised by a non-profit group with Hindu nationalist links.</p>
<p>Mr Modi’s Hindu nationalist government is pulling out all the stops, at an expense of more than £10 million, to woo the president and first lady Melania Trump. But experts have said that very little of substance will be achieved for either side beyond the pageantry and symbolism.</p>
<p>For Mr Modi, however, the event could be a reprieve from opposition in the country against some of his recent policies, a slumping economy and ongoing protests over a new citizenship law that excludes Muslims.</p>
<p>Experts say a US-India trade pact, which has been in the works from the last three years, seems off the table.</p>
<p><em>“They’ve been hitting us very hard for many, many years,”</em> Mr Trump said this week, while quickly adding: <em>“I really like Prime Minister Modi.”</em></p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Look so forward to being with my great friends in INDIA! <a href="https://t.co/1jdk3AW6fG">https://t.co/1jdk3AW6fG</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1231345462793441280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 22, 2020</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Mr Trump is also expected to travel to the 17th-century monument to love, the Taj Mahal.</p>
<p>On Tuesday, he will participate in ceremonial events and meet with government officials, business leaders and US Embassy staff, followed by a dinner at the presidential palace in New Delhi.</p>
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