Chennai: India-US ties to remain as robust as ever despite a regime change at the White House, top officials of the US Mission in India said on Wednesday as they asserted that the relationship between the two countries go beyond the “friendship” of the US President and Indian Prime Minister.
US Consulate General in Chennai Philip A Min the US-India relationship has been witnessing an upward trajectory for the past few years and the strength of the ties stand on issues like people to people contacts.
Responding to questions about whether there would be change in the immigration policy, Mr Min told reporters at the US Election Day event at a five-star hotel that there would be no change in the policy.
“I love Chennai and South India. I am very proud that two women with roots in Chennai have won the elections and have entered the US House,” Mr Min said.
The event saw people from all walks of the society including students predicting the results and even voting at a mock polling station. In Delhi, US envoy Richard Verma said that the ties that bind the two countries are built on shared democratic values and go beyond the economic and people-to-people ties.
Mr Verma, appointed by the Obama administration in 2014, had worked closely with Trump’s Democratic contender Hillary Clinton, when she was serving as the secretary of state.
“The ties that bind our two countries together are built on our shared democratic values, and go beyond the friendship of the American President and the Indian Prime Minister. They go beyond the economic and people-to-people ties.
“The US-India relationship is vitally important, it is bipartisan, and it is only growing stronger. Here’s to another four years of robust US-India ‘dosti’ (friendship),” he Verma said in a statement.
