Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Spanish counterpart Pedro Sanchez have inaugurated India’s first private military aircraft plant, boosting New Delhi’s ambitions of growing local manufacturing in its defence and aerospace industries.

 

Sanchez was welcomed to India with a flower-filled open-top parade alongside Modi, as Madrid seeks to boost investment in the world’s fifth-largest economy.

 

It is the first visit by a Spanish premier to India in eighteen years.

 

Modi visited Spain in 2017 and held talks with Sanchez at the G-twenty summits in 2018 and 2021.