President Obama Invites Narendra Modi To The U.S. Despite Visa Ban Under Religious Freedom Law

Reuters  | by  David Brunnstrom and Steve Holland

Posted: 05/20/2014 2:11 pm EDT Updated: 05/20/2014 2:59 pm EDT

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(Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama congratulated new Indian leader Narendra Modi on his election victory on Friday and invited him to the White House, even though he was barred from the country less than 10 years ago over massacres of Muslims.
Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party and its allies swept India's elections, putting him in position to be prime minister, and ousted the ruling Nehru-Gandhi dynasty in a seismic political shift that gives the Hindu nationalist and his party a mandate for sweeping economic reform.
Obama told Modi by telephone that he looked forward to working closely with him to "fulfill the extraordinary promise of the U.S.-India strategic partnership," the White House said.
"The president invited Narendra Modi to visit Washington at a mutually agreeable time to further strengthen our bilateral relationship."
A U.S. visit could come as soon as the U.N. General Assembly in New York in September, when Modi could also visit Washington.
The administration of President George W. Bush denied Modi a visa in 2005 under a 1998 U.S. law barring entry to foreigners who have committed "particularly severe violations of religious freedom."
In 2002, when Modi had just become Gujarat's chief minister, more than 1,000 people, mostly Muslims, were killed in sectarian riots in the state.
Modi denied any wrongdoing. India's Supreme Court ruled in 2010 he had no case to answer.
The anti-Modi lobby in the United States has dwindled. In March, a congressional report said Modi would qualify for a visa if he became leader.
Washington sees its relationship with India as critical, partly to counterbalance China's rising power. Obama has called it "one of the defining partnerships of the 21st century."
A Modi government could boost investor confidence though residual bad feeling over the visa issue will need to dissipate.
The U.S.-India relationship hit its lowest ebb in a decade last year after a junior Indian diplomat, Devyani Khobragade, was arrested and strip-searched in New York. The U.S. ambassador to India resigned after the incident and has yet to be replaced.
Businessmen attending an election result lunch at the Indian ambassador's residence in Washington on Friday expressed optimism about a more investor-friendly environment under Modi.
However, some privately expressed concern about a possible revival in communal violence.
Last month, Nisha Biswal, the top U.S. diplomat for South Asia, said the United States wants bilateral trade of $500 billion a year, up from about $100 billion currently.
One concern for Western businesses is the BJP's welcoming of foreign direct investment in all sectors that create local jobs excluding supermarkets, a setback to retailers such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc and Carrefour.
Drug patents are another sore point. The government has been considering allowing the generic manufacture of a number of patented drugs to give India's 1.2 billion people access to affordable medicines, putting it at odds with Western pharmaceutical companies.

COMMENT:

US – Indian relationship would collide first with a whimsical wrongheaded woman in power in the neighboring east. This government is, had been and would be at heart and soul an ardent loyal of the Indian Congress. This is partly because as is reported that the congress party leader is reported to have promised to the wrongheaded woman to make the country a puppet country like Sikim and keep her in power permanently to suck the ass holes of the congress party leaders. 

From that very day it is the talk of the country that the behavior of country’s  Ministers and Party Leaders in power has drastically changed and it is an open secret and is known not only to the population of the country but also to the entire world.  

It is because of the wrongheaded woman’s behavior towards West and EU diplomats in the country, by her and all party leaders and activist’s gesture and posture showing overtly that the West and EU diplomats are now not that important anymore than the Russian and Indian diplomats are.

Modi, has to Size up her by asking her to get the mandate by vote of the population of the country concerned and not by nomination as that is not what democratic norms is and then only India would deal with the elected leader of the democratic country.  

INDIA, to be the regional Leader it has to be a country acceptable to the overall people of the neighboring countries. This is not only with Thai Land case but also with other eastern neighboring countries not by trying to Install puppet government as has been the previous congress party chief tried to do.

Political analysts opined that even the congress Leader helped in killing the people of the tiny neighboring country to instill fear in population of the countries through engaging India’s intelligent organization RAW sent inside the neighboring foreign country to facilitate installation of the puppet government which is highly in violation of UN International law.

Modi would not have only two countries to deal with but too many including the states within his own country as this subcontinent is a conglomerate of divergent thinking people with less discipline. More so this days of advancement, torturing, extorting of the have notch poor and middle class by the rich intellectual corrupt criminals and getting help of the Congress Party’s top leaders similarly the Wrongheaded woman’s country followed Indian style.

It is high time that all neighboring countries are asked by the Indian government to come through proper democratically elected mandate. 

It is also time US opens its mouth after shameful incident happening in the neighboring country with the help of India as per report mentioned above . It is also reported that the Indian ambassador is accomplishing the role of an adviser to the Wrongheaded woman’s government.