Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Sunday announced that Prime Minister Narendra Modi would visit the company headquarters in California for a question and answer session on September 27.
The two will discuss how communities can work together to address social and economic challenges.
“I’m excited to announce that Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India will be visiting Facebook HQ later this month for a Townhall Q&A,” Mr. Zuckerberg wrote in a post on Facebook.
He asked Facebook users to send in their questions for the session.
The live video of the session will be available on Mr. Modi’s official page in the social media website.
Recalling his meeting with the Mr. Modi in India last year, the Facebook CEO wrote, “...it’s an honor to have the chance to host him here at Facebook.”
PM thanks Zuckerberg
Mr. Modi took to twitter to thank Mr. Zuckerberg for the invite. He tweeted:
I thank Mark Zuckerberg for the invite to visit >@facebook HQ & for the Townhall Q&A at 10 PM IST on 27th September. >https://t.co/tlbCeLZeh4
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) >September 13, 2015
India has the largest Facebook userbase outside the U.S. In June, the company said 125 million users of its global base of 1.44 billion come from India.
Last year, Mr. Zuckerberg made his maiden trip to India. The young billionaire had called on Mr. Modi to discuss digital expansion in the country.
