Malaysian PM visit to India: Seperate meeting with Rahul Gandhi.

Visit of Malaysian Prime Minister Mohammed Najib Tun Razak on Thursday did the meeting with Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi. It was his final appointment in the Indian capital prior to left for Chennai.

This is possibly for the foremost time a visiting head of government is having an individual conference with the Gandhi scion.

The conference, according to resources, was required by the Malaysian prime minister to set up relations with Rahul Gandhi, usually seen as a growing Congress leader and frequently mentioned as a possible prime minister of the country.

Razak Wednesday meet the ruling United Progressive Alliance chairperson Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi's mom, ahead of the detained talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

Razak, who came here on a five day visit Tuesday, is possible to meet Tamil Nadu C.M. M. Karunanidhi in Chennai.

He will also interrelate with entrepreneurs and Malaysian industrialist who have made Tamil Nadu their commerce center in India. Around 1.9 million people of Indian derivation live in Malaysia and nearly every one of them are from Tamil Nadu.

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