Exterior affairs minister S Jaishankar on Sunday mentioned that India is just not nervous concerning the outcomes of the US presidential elections, as Donald Trump secured a victory over Kamala Harris within the race for the White Home.
Addressing the silver jubilee celebrations of the Aditya Birla Group Scholarships Programme in Mumbai, the minister mentioned,”The Prime Minister was among the many first three calls I feel that President Trump took. Prime Minister Modi has truly constructed rapport throughout a number of presidents.”
“When he first got here to DC, Obama was the president, then it was Trump, then it was Biden. So, you already know, for him, there’s one thing pure by way of how he forges these relationships. So, that is helped massively,” ANI quoted the minister as saying.
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Jaishankar mentioned, not like many different nations, India is just not anxious concerning the newest end result of the US presidential elections.
“And I feel, the modifications in India have helped as effectively. I do know at present lots of nations are nervous concerning the US. Let’s be sincere about it. We aren’t one among them,” he mentioned.
On the day Donald Trump was declared the winner, Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to the US president-elect and congratulated him.
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“Had an amazing dialog with my pal, President @realDonaldTrump , congratulating him on his spectacular victory. Trying ahead to working carefully collectively as soon as once more to additional strengthen India-US relations throughout know-how, defence, vitality, house and a number of other different sectors,” the prime minister posted on X.
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‘Development in direction of a extra various, multipolar world’: Jaishankar
The exterior affairs minister mentioned there’s a development in direction of a “extra various, multipolar world however older, industrialised economies haven’t gone away and stay prime funding targets”
“Sure, there’s a shift. We’re ourselves an instance of the shift… should you take a look at our financial weight, you take a look at our financial rating, you take a look at even Indian corporates, their attain, their presence, Indian professionals, which I spoke about. So no query there’s a rebalancing,” Jaishankar mentioned in response to a query on the reset within the international energy dynamic.
(With PTI, ANI inputs)
