Prez Trump’s trip demonstrates value US places on ties with India: Mike Pompeo
US President’s 'first official trip to India this week demonstrates the value the US places on the US-India partnership,' Pompeo said in a tweet on Thursday.
US President’s 'first official trip to India this week demonstrates the value the US places on the US-India partnership,' Pompeo said in a tweet on Thursday.
The meeting between PM Modi and President Trump is important to America's national security interest and global economy, a group of US lawmakers has said.
Earlier, on February 12, Congress cautioned the government on US President Donald Trump’s visit to India on Friday by saying that the government should take utmost care to ensure that it did not turn into a Trump re-election campaign.
This will be US President Trump’s first visit to India. It will be his fifth meeting with PM Modi in eight months.
Senior Congress leader Randeep Surjewala took to Twitter and hit at the Modi government. He raised concern about why Prime Minister Modi is silent about 'India First' as President Trump talked of 'America First.'
In Ahmedabad, President Trump will address the ‘Namaste Trump’ event jointly with Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the newly built Motera cricket stadium.
'We have heard Trump is going to be in Ahmedabad for only three hours but the wall construction is costing almost Rs 100 crore to the state exchequer,' Sena said.
The influential senators Chris Van Hollen, Todd Young, Richard J Durbin and Lindsey O Graham, in their letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo dated February 12, said that India has now imposed the longest-ever internet shutdown by a democracy, disrupting access to medical care, business and education for seven million people.
