Within hours after his arrival following an overnight flight from Myanmar, Modi headed for the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) for the first engagement of his five-day Australia visit, the first by an Indian Prime Minister in 28 years after Rajiv Gandhi.
"I wrote on the selfie with my young friends at QUT.. Today is 14th November. Pandit Nehru's birthday. My good wishes to children," Modi said in a tweet. Modi wrote in Gujarati.
Modi has been accused by Congress of ignoring the country's first Prime Minister and appropriating the legacy of freedom movement leaders like Mahatma Gandhi and Sardar Patel.
The Prime Minister, who is in Australia for the G20 summit starting tomorrow and for bilateral talks with his Australian counterpart Tony Abbott next Tuesday in Canberra, was given a guided tour of the QUT campus and interacted with a group of selected students, some of whom were Indians.
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Modi was also shown an agriculture robot 'AgBot' at the University's 'The Cube' complex -- the University's Science and Engineering Centre -- developed under a joint bio-energy programme using agriculture waste.
The Agro Robot, developed as part of a programme to develop robotics technology in the agriculture sector, is a light weight machine that performs the functions of a large tractor, including weeding work.