Washington: Over 40,000 people have signed up to listen to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's address to Indian-Americans in Silicon Valley on September 27, surpassing the 30,000 registrations at last year's Madison Square Garden reception for him in New York.

With about a month still to go, organisers of the event hope that the number could cross 50,000, a record in itself.
By last night when registration process for members of 500 community organisations concluded, officials of organising
Indo-American Community of West Coast told PTI that more than 40,000 people had registered for the September 27 event.