berlin the colours and diversity of india were on display at berlins iconic brandenburg gate as members of the indian community gave a rousing welcome to prime minister narendra modi on his arrival in the german capital on monday modi arrived here on the first leg of his threenation europe trip that will also take him to denmark and france it was early morning in berlin yet several people from the indian community came by was wonderful connecting with them india is proud of the accomplishments of our diaspora modi tweeted after his arrival here the diaspora organised dance and other cultural programmes to greet the prime minister at the brandenburg gate the colours and diversity of india are on display at berlins iconic brandenburg gate the prime ministers office tweeted along with some pictures of the cultural event a flavour of india at the brandenburg gate have a look it said in another tweet the community members including children who were waiting for the prime minister since 4 am at hotel adlon kempinski chanted vande mataram and bharat mata ki jai on seeing him modi praised an indianorigin boy ashutosh who sang a patriotic song for him shaabash well done he told the boy a little girl manya mishra presented the pm his portrait he took a picture with manya and also signed the portrait for her she said it was a wonderful experience for her to meet prime minister modi he signed the painting i made of him she added the community members were excited to have such a close encounter with him we reached here at 4 oclock in the morning one person said he has done so much for the country in the last eight years very excited to meet him in person here another person said there are around 203 lakh indian passport holders and indianorigin people about 160 lakh nrisindian passport holders and around 43000 pios in germany according to the ministry of external affairs the indian diaspora mainly consists of professionals researchers and scientists businessmen nurses and students there has been a significant increase in the last few years in the number of qualified indian professionals in the fields of it banking finance etc it said