In Tokyo to wait the Quad summit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday met 3 former Japanese premiers — Yoshihide Suga, Shinzo Abe and Yoshiro Mori — after they referred to as on him.
Modi, who has loved heat chemistry together along with his former opposite numbers from Japan, additionally invited Suga to wait Ganeshotsav festivities in India this year.
Suga, who served as Japan’s PM from September 2020 to September 2021, is a part of a set of 15 Liberal Democratic Party lawmakers referred to as the ‘Ganesha’ organization, named after the Hindu god worshiped as a destroyer of obstacles.
The MPs who belong to this organization have 3 matters in common – they’re first-era lawmakers, have served 4 or much less phrases withinside the Lower House and that they do now no longer belong to any faction.
Among the previous high minister of Japan, Modi had a specifically near friendship with Shinzo Abe, the longest serving Japanese PM who changed into in workplace from December 2012 to September 2016.
During Abe’s go to to India in December 2015, the 2 leaders held summit talks in New Delhi accompanied through a journey to Varanasi, the parliamentary constituency of the Indian PM, in which the 2 leaders completed the Ganga aarti.
Abe lower back the favour with a diplomatic allure offensive while Modi visited Japan in October 2018. Besides maintaining talks in Tokyo, Abe had hosted Modi at his holiday domestic close to Mount Fuji, the primary time he had invited a overseas chief to his personal lodge.
While the tenures of Yoshiro Mori, who served as Japan PM in 2000-2001, and Modi in no way coincided, the 2 leaders had met formerly all through the Indian PM’s 2016 journey.