Over 60 prominent US lawmakers to attend Howdy Modi! event

Over 60 prominent US lawmakers, including first American Hindu Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard and Indian-American Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi, will attend the "Howdy Modi!" mega diaspora event in Houston to welcome Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Lawmakers, including Congressmen, Senate representatives and governors of various states, will attend the event organized by the Indian-American community at the sprawling NRG Stadium on September 22 that will witness a record audience of 50,000 people, Jiten Agrawal, CEO of Expedien, an IT services firm, told PTI in an exclusive interview.

This will be the grandest and momentous of all events in the US until now as there is huge amount of keenness among Indian-Americans, main stream Americans, the lawmakers and business heads to listen to the vision of Prime Minister Modi," Agrawal said.

He said that some of the lawmakers who would attend the event includes John Cornyn, Ted Cruz, Al Green, Pete Olson, Sheila Jackson Lee, Sylvia Garcia, Greg Abbot, Cindy Hyde-Smith, Ami Bera, Brian Babin, Raja Krishnamurthy, Tulsi Gabbard, Brad Sherman and Governor Eliot Engel of New York