PM Modi’s US Go to: The Ministry of Exterior Affairs (MEA) introduced on Friday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will go to the USA on February 12 and 13. The Prime Minister shall be among the many first few world leaders to go to the USA after US President Donald Trump’s second time period started just a few weeks in the past.
The 2 leaders had shared heat relations throughout Trump’s first time period. They held a cellphone name final week, which either side referred to as “productive.” This replace on PM Modi’s essential go to comes amid uproar in India over the deportation of unlawful Indian immigrants and Trump’s tariff threats to New Delhi.
“The truth that the Prime Minister has been invited to go to the US inside barely three weeks of the brand new administration taking workplace reveals the significance of the India-US partnership and displays the bipartisan assist this partnership enjoys in the USA,” Overseas Secretary Vikram Misri instructed reporters in New Delhi on Friday.
Final 12 months in December, Trump reiterated his intention to impose reciprocal tariffs in retaliation for the excessive tariff imposed by India on the import of sure American merchandise. Whereas making these remarks, the US President said that India and Brazil had been among the many international locations that impose excessive tariffs on sure U.S. merchandise. “Reciprocal. In the event that they tax us, we tax them the identical quantity. They tax us. We tax them. And so they tax us. Virtually in all circumstances, they’re taxing us, and we’ve not been taxing them,” Trump had instructed reporters again then.
The go to, the highest diplomat burdened, could be a useful alternative to have interaction the brand new administration in all areas of mutual curiosity. The Prime Minister will maintain a bilateral assembly with President Trump in each restricted and delegation-level codecs. “Senior US administration figures are additionally anticipated to name on PM Modi throughout the go to, whereas he may also have the chance to work together with the enterprise leaders and members of the Indian neighborhood,” the Overseas Secretary additional said.
Reckoning that it has been considered one of India’s strongest worldwide partnerships lately, Misri stated that the PM’s go to is in keeping with New Delhi’s regular engagement with the brand new US administration following the election of President Trump in November 2024.
“Prime Minister Modi visited the US on two events throughout President Trump’s first time period—in 2017 and 2019. This time, after his election victory, PM Modi was one of many first world leaders to name and congratulate him. The PM once more referred to as him after the inauguration, and it was on that event that they agreed to fulfill very quickly. That is the promise and the dedication that’s now unfolding,” he stated.
One other massive subject that’s more likely to be in focus throughout the Prime Minister’s go to shall be immigration points, because it comes in opposition to the backdrop of 104 unlawful Indians being deported by the US on a army plane. The problem led to uproar and protests in Parliament, with the opposition led by the Congress flagging the “inhuman method” through which the Indians had been deported with handcuffs and their legs chained.
Exterior Affairs Minister (EAM) S. Jaishankar, who attended President Trump’s inauguration final month in Washington, additionally had his first assembly with Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Throughout his go to, EAM Jaishankar additionally met with the brand new US Nationwide Safety Advisor Mike Waltz, a former congressman.
