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| India’s Modi was once denied U.S. entry. Sunday, he was the star at Madison Square Garden. | India’s Modi was once denied U.S. entry. Sunday, he was the star at Madison Square Garden. |
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| Madison Square Garden was at full capacity Sunday, not for a Knicks game or a Jay-Z concert, but for the prime minister of India. A crowd of more than 18,500 cheered along with Narendra Modi on his first visit to New York City as prime minister. | Madison Square Garden was at full capacity Sunday, not for a Knicks game or a Jay-Z concert, but for the prime minister of India. A crowd of more than 18,500 cheered along with Narendra Modi on his first visit to New York City as prime minister. |
| Modi was elected leader of India in May, where he won in a landslide. Since then, he has garnered a rock star-like following. | Modi was elected leader of India in May, where he won in a landslide. Since then, he has garnered a rock star-like following. |
| A member of the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party in India, he had reportedly stated that he refuses to speak to world leaders in English. At Madison Square Garden on Sunday, he delivered an hour-long speech in Hindi, but had spoken to a crowd in Central Park in English the night before. | |
| The Madison Square Garden event was full of spectacles -- it opened with one of India's most popular singers performing one of Mahatma Gandhi's anthems while an artist painted a portrait of the prime minister. Watch the whole event here: | The Madison Square Garden event was full of spectacles -- it opened with one of India's most popular singers performing one of Mahatma Gandhi's anthems while an artist painted a portrait of the prime minister. Watch the whole event here: |
| Traditional dancers from Gujarat, the prime minister's home state, also took to the stage. | Traditional dancers from Gujarat, the prime minister's home state, also took to the stage. |
| Along with the overwhelmingly positive welcome for Modi in New York were crowds protesting his visit. Before this year, Congress had denied Modi a visa allow him to enter the United States because of his alleged negligence in preventing a 2002 massacre in which more than 1,000 people died, many of them Muslim. | Along with the overwhelmingly positive welcome for Modi in New York were crowds protesting his visit. Before this year, Congress had denied Modi a visa allow him to enter the United States because of his alleged negligence in preventing a 2002 massacre in which more than 1,000 people died, many of them Muslim. |
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| Still, hundreds of supporters gathered in Times Square and welcomed the prime minister. | Still, hundreds of supporters gathered in Times Square and welcomed the prime minister. |
| A supporter hold up an America Love Modi sign among a large crowd assembled in Times Square to watchModi's speech, which was being simulcast on a giant screen. (Carlo Allegri/Reuters) A jam packed Madison Square Garden awaits the arrival of Indian PM Narendra Modi #ModiAtMadisonpic.twitter.com/IaSbOuskXi — TIMES NOW (@timesnow) September 28, 2014 | A supporter hold up an America Love Modi sign among a large crowd assembled in Times Square to watchModi's speech, which was being simulcast on a giant screen. (Carlo Allegri/Reuters) A jam packed Madison Square Garden awaits the arrival of Indian PM Narendra Modi #ModiAtMadisonpic.twitter.com/IaSbOuskXi — TIMES NOW (@timesnow) September 28, 2014 |
| A jam packed Madison Square Garden awaits the arrival of Indian PM Narendra Modi #ModiAtMadisonpic.twitter.com/IaSbOuskXi | A jam packed Madison Square Garden awaits the arrival of Indian PM Narendra Modi #ModiAtMadisonpic.twitter.com/IaSbOuskXi |
| — TIMES NOW (@timesnow) September 28, 2014 | — TIMES NOW (@timesnow) September 28, 2014 |
| Modi's welcome wasn't without incident, though -- a YouTube video captured one of India's leading news hosts, Rajdeep Sardesai, being heckled and then pushed by a crowd. Sardesai tweeted about the incident: | Modi's welcome wasn't without incident, though -- a YouTube video captured one of India's leading news hosts, Rajdeep Sardesai, being heckled and then pushed by a crowd. Sardesai tweeted about the incident: |
| Glad we caught the idiots on cam. Only way to shame the mob is to show them. #ModiAtMadison — Rajdeep Sardesai (@sardesairajdeep) September 28, 2014 | Glad we caught the idiots on cam. Only way to shame the mob is to show them. #ModiAtMadison — Rajdeep Sardesai (@sardesairajdeep) September 28, 2014 |
| Glad we caught the idiots on cam. Only way to shame the mob is to show them. #ModiAtMadison | Glad we caught the idiots on cam. Only way to shame the mob is to show them. #ModiAtMadison |
| — Rajdeep Sardesai (@sardesairajdeep) September 28, 2014 | — Rajdeep Sardesai (@sardesairajdeep) September 28, 2014 |
| In just a few hours, the video received more than 100,000 hits. | In just a few hours, the video received more than 100,000 hits. |