New Delhi [India], Nov 16 (NT): French Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Development, Jean-Yves Le Drian, reached today for a two-day visit to make stronger the bilateral ties between the two nations.

Minister Le Drian will term on for a wide-ranging discussion with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the lead of the State visit of French President Emmanuel Macron to India.

The French minister will clutch political conference with numerous Indian dignitaries along with India's External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and Minister of State for Power and New and Renewable Energy Raj Kumar Singh.

 Le Drian will also get together with Ajit Doval, National Security Adviser to the Indian Prime Minister.

Minister Le Drian’s first-day visit will be to make stronger a variety of aspects of France's bilateral cooperation with India, its leading Asian strategic partner: security, economy, sustainable urban development and renewable energy, education and research, people-to-people knots and cultural affairs.

On the second day of the visit, Le Drian will formally initiate the third edition of the Indo-French platform "Bonjour India" on Saturday.

The splendid Opening of Bonjour India will conduct at Amber Fort, Jaipur, on Saturday evening. Minister Le Drian, Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar, and Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje will be present at the event.The event will feature a monumental video creation by French artist Xavier de Richemont, entitled "Barghal".

Bonjour India is a three-month Indo-French collaborative platform focused on modernism, inventiveness, and partnership, which will be presented in more than 300 events in 33 cities across India.