By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net,
New Delhi: To Narendra Modi, now humiliation and embarrassment have come from Oman with the Arab country publicly denying that it ever invited him to visit the country. UK and America have more than once shut their doors on the Gujarat Chief Minister for the most heinous ever communal pogrom of 2002 that was orchestrated under his rule.
In an advertisement published on October 23 in the national daily The Hindu, the New Delhi embassy of the Sultanate of Oman clarified Oman had never invited Narendra Modi to the country. If he visits on the invitation of a company there, the government of Oman would have no relation to that visit and thus he would not be a state guest.
“The Embassy of the Sultanate of Oman would like to inform that Dutch Norterdam Company has some projects in Sohar City, Sultanate of Oman. Hence the Company has agreements with State of Gujarat, Republic of India. It has invited Mr Narendra Modi the chief minister of Gujarat to visit its projects in Sohar. The Government of the Sultanate of Oman has no relation to this visit, since he is a guest of the above mentioned company,” reads the advertisement.
The embassy clarification has come following a citizens’ online petition to Oman to rescind Modi’s visit. The South Asia Citizens Web had launched similar online petition against Modi’s UK and US visit.
Meanwhile, Gujarat Chief Minister’s office has clarified that Modi was not scheduled to visit Oman. The officials, however, have reportedly admitted that Oman Industries and Commerce Minister Maqbool Ali Sultan during his Gandhinagar visit on September 9 had invited Modi to visit Oman. The Gujarat officials have also admitted that Modi had accepted the invitation.
