New Delhi (NVI): US President Donald Trump and his wife Melania Trump tried their hands at spinning ‘charkha’ (spinning wheel) at Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad today, as they paid tributes to Mahatma Gandhi.
This was the first time that an incumbent US President visited the ashram.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who accompanied Trump and Melania, showed the US President and the US First Lady ‘Hriday Kunj’, a room inside the Ashram where Gandhiji and his wife Kasturba lived.
“To my great friend Prime Minister Narendra Modi, thank you for this wonderful visit,” Trump wrote in the Ashram visitors’ book.
The US President was briefed about Mahatma Gandhi, Father of the Nation, and the importance of charkha as a symbol of self-reliance.
Modi also presented “Three Wise Monkeys,” a larger version of one belonging to Gandhiji, as a memento to the US President.
Trump and Modi then resumed their roadshow till Motera stadium where the two leaders addressed a large gathering.
