MAGA+MIGA=MEGA: MODI

Modi links Trump's mantra of 'Make America Great Again' with the idea of Viksit Bharat as a symbol of 'Make India Great Again' to declare a 'mega' India-US partnership across sectors

- Prashant Jha

WASHINGTON: Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared that US President Donald Trump's vision of Make America Great Again (MAGA) and his own idea of Make India Great Again (MIGA) can translate into a "mega partnership", with the two leaders unveiling an ambitious new plan - the US-India COMPACT for the 21st century in Washington DC on Thursday evening eastern time (Friday morning IST).

COMPACT, the abbreviation for Catalysing Opportunities for Military Partnership, Accelerated Commerce & Technology, will serve as the basis of India's ties with the second Donald Trump administration, and is a clear and interconnected blueprint that ties together a relationship based on deeper defence, energy, trade, investment, technology, innovation, people-to-people ties. It also envisages stronger regional partnerships in India's neighbourhood across the Indo-Pacific, West Asia and Western Indian Ocean. It has clear timelines and lays out clear outcome-oriented expectations from both partners.