Chief Minister Vijay Rupani left Saturday on a three-day tour of Russia with a delegation led by Union minister for Commerce & Industry Piyush Goyal.
The delegation will also include Gujarat’s diamond industrialists. Two MoUs are scheduled to be signed between the industrialists and Russian province of Yakutia region for sourcing rough diamond, and with Primorsky Krai region for setting up diamond cutting and polishing unit.
This will be Rupani’s first foreign tour in his second term as CM. Flying with him are representatives of Dharmanandan diamonds, whose owner Lalji Patel had famously bought Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s monogrammed suit; Shree Ramkrishna Exports, owned by Govind Dholakia; Pramod Agrawal from Gujarat Gems and Jewellery Export Promotion Council; and BJP MLA Harsh Sanghvi, besides others.