In­dia Prime Min­is­ter Naren­dra Mo­di has told mem­bers of the In­di­an di­as­po­ra here that they will soon be el­i­gi­ble for Over­seas Cit­i­zen­ship of In­dia (OCI), as he praised the strong cul­tur­al and his­toric ties be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go and In­dia.

In an ad­dress to a crowd of hun­dreds at the Na­tion­al Cy­cling Cen­tre in Cou­va last night, his first of­fi­cial event af­ter ar­riv­ing in here yes­ter­day af­ter­noon, Mo­di en­cour­aged more peo­ple of In­di­an de­scent to vis­it In­dia. He ex­pressed ap­pre­ci­a­tion for the ef­forts of the di­as­po­ra in for­ti­fy­ing the con­nec­tions be­tween T&T and In­dia.

“There must be some­thing mag­i­cal in the dou­bles and dhalpourie be­cause you have dou­bled the suc­cess of this great na­tion,” Mo­di said.