Prime Minister Narendra Modi has gifted conventional artifacts from poll-bound Gujarat to the overseas leaders he met on the sideline of the G20 summit at Bali in Indonesia on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Gujarat will go to polls on December 1 and 5.

The prime minister additionally gifted a few of his overseas counterparts artifacts from Himachal Pradesh, the place polling for the state meeting elections had been held on November 12 final. The votes in Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat, each presently dominated by the Bharatiya Janata Occasion, will probably be counted and outcomes will probably be declared on December 8 subsequent. 

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When Modi had visited the temples in Kathmandu in Might 2018, the Congress had criticized the prime minister for allegedly making an attempt to affect the voters to vote for his Bharatiya Janata Occasion by providing prayers within the Hindu shrines within the capital of Nepal on the day of polling for the state meeting elections in Karnataka. The Trinamool Congress had moved the Election Fee in March 2021 after the Prime Minister had visited and paid obeisance at a sacred shrine of the Matuas at Orakandi in Bangladesh forward of the meeting polls in West Bengal. The Matuas account for practically 17% of the inhabitants of West Bengal and might affect the poll-results in 40-45 of the entire 294 meeting constituencies within the State.

Modi gifted the UK’s new Hindu Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, a “Mata Ni Pachedi”, a hand-crafted sacred textile wall piece made in Gujarat. The “Mata Ni Pachedi” is mostly supplied by the devotees to the temples of goddesses. The 2 prime ministers had a bilateral assembly on the sideline of the G20 summit in Bali on Wednesday. It was the primary assembly between the 2 leaders.

The prime minister gifted his new counterpart in Italy, Giorgia Meloni, a Patan Patola Dupatta – a shawl woven by the Salvis of Patan in northern Gujarat. Meloni took over because the Prime Minister of Italy on October 22 final. She is the primary lady to take excessive workplace within the Authorities of Italy.

Modi gifted Agate Bowls from Khambhat in Gujarat to French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong throughout his conferences with them in Bali on Wednesday. The bowls are made out of single semi-precious stones extracted from the underground mines within the riverbeds of the Khambhat area of Gujarat.

He gifted Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of Australia a Pithora wall-painting made by the Rathwa artisans from Chhota Udaipur in Gujarat. President Joe Biden of the USA bought miniature work from Kangra in Himachal Pradesh. His Spanish counterpart Pedro Sánchez too bought a Kanal brass set from Mandi and Kullu from Himachal Pradesh.

Modi gifted a silver bowl from Surat in Gujarat and a scarf from Kinnaur in Himachal Pradesh to Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo, who hosted the G20 summit.