XI FAILS TO DERAIL THE BIDEN, MODI STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP

The US President made it clear on and offscreen that he and Modi were on the same page where the need for a lasting and comprehensive India-US partnership to meet the threats faced by the international community in the 21st century was concerned.

- MADHAV NALAPAT

Planning for a State Visit by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the United States had been ongoing since the beginning of the year, and this triggered an intense effort by the SinoWahabi lobby in the US to seek to have the visit put off indefinitely.

Almost all the media outlets that supported US President Biden launched increasingly acerbic broadsides about how there was “discrimination against minorities by the Modi government”.

No hint was given in their columns of the reality that every welfare scheme of the Modi government was applicable across the board to all citizens, irrespective of which religion they were born into. Repeated assertions that the world’s biggest democracy had morphed into an autocracy were made, ignoring the fact that the BJP has lost at least seventeen state Assembly elections to opposition parties, the latest being Karnataka.