Shree Ashok Bhatt, Speaker of Gujarat Assembly

I was fortunate enough to attend a talk by Ashok Bhatt, speaker of the Gujarat Assembly, at a restaurant in Birmingham. The event was organised by Overseas Friends of BJP (Chairman - Dr Surendra Sharma).

Seeing a window of opportunity to speak to him about Learning Journey, I sat next to him as he was eating. Pushing my Gujarati to its limits, I managed to get the message across.

To my amazement, he opened his speech referring to me and ConnectIndia (remembering my name!) and continued to speak with great passion about Indian challenges and his vision for the future. He did speak in Hindi, so it was difficult at times to keep up - but the jist of his message was mostly understood.

(to be continued)