Children at the village waved placards of PM Modi and Donald Trump and a huge banner of the US president describing his Indian counterpart as "very energetic".
A village in Haryana with little electricity or running water renamed itself "Trump Village" on Friday in an unusual gesture to the American president ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's trip to Washington.
A huge billboard declaring "Welcome to Trump Village" in Hindi and English, accompanied with a beaming portrait of the US president, was unveiled in the tiny hamlet officially known as Marora in Haryana.
Large posters of Trump adorned with marigold flowers were placed throughout the village of mainly mud-brick houses for a renaming ceremony, which was presided over by village heads and an NGO.
But despite the bold lettering greeting visitors at the arched village gateway, the name change is not official or sanctioned by the government.
The symbolic gesture comes just days before PM Modi's first meeting with Donald Trump this weekend at the White House.
A village in Haryana with little electricity or running water renamed itself "Trump Village" on Friday in an unusual gesture to the American president ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's trip to Washington.
A huge billboard declaring "Welcome to Trump Village" in Hindi and English, accompanied with a beaming portrait of the US president, was unveiled in the tiny hamlet officially known as Marora in Haryana.
Large posters of Trump adorned with marigold flowers were placed throughout the village of mainly mud-brick houses for a renaming ceremony, which was presided over by village heads and an NGO.
But despite the bold lettering greeting visitors at the arched village gateway, the name change is not official or sanctioned by the government.
The symbolic gesture comes just days before PM Modi's first meeting with Donald Trump this weekend at the White House.
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