Dr Vijay Chauthaiwale, in-charge of Foreign Affairs Dept for the Bharatiya Janata Party will be visiting UK from 26-29 June to principally participate in the UK-India Conclave in Buckinghamshire on 26 June. He will be the key speaker in a discussion about the 'The Diaspora: India’s 30th State, Leveraging an untapped global influence'.
He will also be taking part in a private and off-the-record discussion at IISS on ‘India’s Election Results and the ‘Way Forward’’, followed by a Q&A session. At this discussion he will be joined by Shishir Bajoria, Member of the Core Committee of the Overseas Friends of the BJP; Member of the BJP’s Election Management Committee of West Bengal; and past President of the Indian Chamber of Commerce, Kolkata.
Before coming to the UK, he reportedly told Connected to India, the Indian government is unlikely to allow dual citizenship, at least in the near term,“There are a lot of intricacies involved (in dual citizenship). So I don’t see that happening in the near future,” he said.
