ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION)<br/> <br />STORY: Tens of thousands offer a rousing New York welcome as Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi enters Madison Square Garden in New York.<br/> <br />The venue more used to hosting big sports events and the greatest names in rock music, was packed as members of the fast growing 3.2 million-strong Indian diaspora, cheered and chanted "Modi, Modi!"<br/> <br />Modi's U.S. visit less comes less than a decade after he was barred from the United States over bloody sectarian riots.<br/> <br />On Saturday, Modi appeared before some 60,000 people at the Global Citizen Festival in New York's Central Park, where performers including Jay Z and Sting backed a campaign to end global poverty and bring essentials such as sanitation to all - an effort the Indian leader is pushing at home.<br/> <br />India's U.S. diaspora makes up only about one percent of the U.S. population, but it is growing fast, highly educated and increasingly influential, including leaders of government agenci
