As PM Modi embarks on Saudi go to, Congress recollects Nehru’s 1956 journey

King Saud Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud was in India for 17 days between 26 November and 13 December 1955, visiting New Delhi, Mumbai, Khadakwasla, Bengaluru, Mysuru, Hyderabad, Agra, Aligarh, and Varanasi, Ramesh mentioned in his put up on X.

“The Saudi King’s extraordinary go to of 1955 overlapped with that of the 2 Soviet leaders Nikita Khrushchev and Nikolai Bulganin who spent a complete of 19 days in India in two spells – 18 November 1955 to 30 November 1955, and once more from 7 December 1955 to 14 December 1955,” he mentioned.

Thereafter, then Prime Minister Nehru visited Saudi Arabia from 24 to twenty-eight September 1956, Ramesh recalled.

Prime Minister Modi on Tuesday mentioned India deeply values its lengthy and historic ties with Saudi Arabia, asserting that their relations have acquired a strategic depth and momentum in recent times.

In his departure assertion forward of his two-day go to to the dominion on the invitation of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, he mentioned each international locations have developed a mutually useful and substantive partnership, together with within the domains of defence, commerce, funding, power and people-to-people ties.