PM Modi To Go to US Subsequent Week Amid Worry Of Tariff Hike, Deportation Of Indian Immigrants

PM Modi’s US Go to: The Ministry of Exterior Affairs (MEA) introduced on Friday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will go to the US on February 12 and 13. The Prime Minister might be among the many first few world leaders to go to the US after US President Donald Trump’s second time period started a couple of 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 each 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 exhibits the significance of the India-US partnership and displays the bipartisan help this partnership enjoys in the US,” International 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 nations 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. Nearly in all circumstances, they’re taxing us, and we have not been taxing them,” Trump had instructed reporters again then.

The go to, the highest diplomat pressured, could be a priceless alternative to interact 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 group,” the International Secretary additional said.

Reckoning that it has been considered one of India’s strongest worldwide partnerships lately, Misri mentioned that the PM’s go to is in step 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 mentioned.

One other large difficulty that’s more likely to be in focus throughout the Prime Minister’s go to might be immigration points, because it comes towards 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” during 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.