Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi phone called newly elected US President Joe Biden and congratulated him on Tuesday night. During this, he reiterated New Delhi’s commitment to affirm good bilateral relations with Washington.
At the same time, he told Biden to greet Kamala Harris, the elected Vice President of the United States of Indian descent.
According to Indian media, the phone call was important in the coming days for India-US bilateral relations.
“I greet US President-elect Joe Biden over the phone,” Modi tweeted, saying: “We pledge to continue our commitment to the strategic relationship between India and the United States. Issues like climate change, cooperation in the Indo-Pacific region, tackling COVID were also discussed.”
Modi’s last meeting with Biden was in 2014. Biden was then vice president of the United States under Barack Obama.
It is to be noted that Modi’s “friendship” with President Donald Trump in the past was eye-catching that took the relationship into a different dimension with “Howdy Modi” in Houston in September 2019 or “Namaste Trump” in Gujarat in February 2020. The world has seen those programs as evidence of the chemistry of the two leaders’ personal relationships.According to some diplomatic experts, Modi and Trump are residents of the same pole in terms of political position. However, despite his good relations with Modi, Trump’s stance on US immigration policy was quite strict. On the other hand, everyone knows about the Modi government’s “tough” stance on “infiltrators” in India. Source: https://www.daily-bangladesh.com/
