US Ambassador to India Eric Garcetti praised India’s developmental trajectory stating that if anyone wants to see, feel or work on the future, they must come to India. Speaking at an event on Tuesday [April 9], Garcetti said that serving in India has been a “great privilege” as Washington-Delhi ties continue to deepen in several domains.
“If you want to see the future, come to India. If you want to feel the future, come to India. If you want to work on the future, come to India. I have the great privilege of being able to do that every single day as the leader of the US Mission,” he said at an event.
Earlier, US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan had asserted that Washington-Delhi partnership has “gone to new heights”.
“The partnership between the US and India, a country in BRICS, has gone to new heights with an engagement across technology and security and so many other dimensions,” Sullivan said while speaking to reporters at the White House.
The US-India ties had been on an ascending trajectory for past few years.
But the ties have been under the scanner after US prosecutors charged an Indian national in November last year in connection with his involvement in an alleged foiled plot to assassinate Khalistani terrorist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun.
The US alleged that Nikhil Gupta was working with an Indian government employee and had agreed to pay an assassin $100,000 to kill Pannun.
New Delhi has constituted an investigation committee to probe the accusations.
Earlier this month, Garcetti praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s administration for doing “everything that’s been asked for” about the investigation into the Pannun murder plot.
(With inputs from agencies)
