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- On February 24, 2020, the US President Donald Trump visited India.
- Trump later visited Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad and Taj Mahal.
- He did not mention anything about Mahatma Gandhi in the visitors' book.
- The leaders then addressed a large gathering at Motera stadium or Sardar Patel Stadium in Ahmedabad, India.
- As of 2020, it is the largest cricket stadium in the world
- India celebrated the visit of the US President by naming the event as “Namaste Trump”.
- India and US will sign two defence deals for helicopters.
- Around 24 MH-60R helicopters are to be signed for Indian Navy and six AH-64E helicopters are to be signed for Apache helicopters.
- Donald Trump became the seventh US president ever to travel to India and the first one to land in Ahmedabad.
- And he is only second White House occupant to travel to India in their first term.
- Barack Obama was the first U.S. president to do so in 2010.
- Dwight D Eisenhower was the first US President to visit India in 1959.
- Richard Nixon travelled to India in 1969 and Jimmy Carter in 1978.
- Bill Clinton visited India in 2000 and George W Bush in 2006.
- Obama visited India twice in 2010 and 2015.
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