According to senior American diplomat Atul Keshap, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the US highlights the growing relationship between the people of the US and India. The former US envoy to India said the PM Modi visit will be “truly momentous” while speaking at a “India Ideas Summit” hosted by the US-India Business Council (USIBC) on Monday (local time) in Washington, D.C.
“It is a reflection of the friendship and trust and relationship between the people of the United States and the people of India,” Keshap who is also president of USBIC said.
Terming the partnership between the two countries as a “resilient” one, Keshap pointed out that over his two-year tenure as the President of the US-India Business Council, he has witnessed ties between the two countries transform.
“We believe in each other, we trust each other, we have shared values, and this state visit recognises all that. And it recognises the sheer potential of our 1.8 billion free people in more ways than ever,” the USIBC president said.
“The G2G (government to government) and B2B (business to business) relationship ahead of this state visit has shown the world that India and the US are free and democratic nations and are determined to do good for each other and the world,” Keshap said.
He further added that in his recent visits to India, he has seen that the country is “on the move faster than almost any other place on earth.”
Keshap there is a “dazzling amount of activity” in India which is “helping lift hundreds of millions of people to new levels of economic development and happiness.”
The former US envoy to India also said that the USIBC supports the vision of a USD 30 trillion Indian economy and will work together to achieve it.
Regarding PM Modi’s upcoming US visit, Keshap reiterated, “The state visit is going to be magnificent.”
The annual USIBC summit is part of the US Chambers of Commerce and is being conducted ahead of the visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the US on June 22.
India’s ambassador to the US Taranjit Singh Sandhu also said that the speed and scale of the transformation of the India-US relationship have been “phenomenal.”
In his address at the ‘India Ideas Summit’ Keshap said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the third Indian leader to be accorded the honour of a state visit by the US President. PM Modi is the only Indian leader, according to Sandhu, to have twice addressed the US Congress. PM Narendra Modi will travel to the US from June 21 to June 24 at the invitation of US President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden. Indian Americans are eagerly getting ready to greet PM Modi with open arms.