Prime Minister Narendra Modi has visited 58 countries since 2015, incurring an expenditure of Rs 517.82 crore, the Centre said on Wednesday in a written reply to a question in Parliament.
Minister of State for External Affairs V Muraleedharan said that the prime minister visited Russia, the United States and China five times – the highest number of trips Modi has made to a country.
Germany, Spain, Sri Lanka, Japan, Afghanistan, the United Arab Emirates, among others, the minister said in the reply to the question asked by Nationalist Congress Party MP Fauzia Khan and added that many of the trips were multinational.
Modi visited no country in 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic. His last visit was to Brazil in November 2019, according to the reply.
Muraleedharan also said that the prime minister’s visits have strengthened India’s relation with other countries on…