Washington: IndiaSpora, a leading American Indian organization, hosted the event for community leaders in Washington DC earlier this week.
Indian Ambassador for the US, Tararjit Sandhu; Atul Keshap, who recently served as the US demanded D’affaires in Delhi; Indiamen American Congress Ami Bera and King Krishnamoorthi; Neera Tanden, senior advisor for President Joe Biden; Dr.
Meena Sewamani, Director of the Center of Medicare; Former US Ambassador to India, rich in Verma and Nisha Balis, President of the Indian-Indian business council, are some of the leading guests at the event.
This is the first time since the pandemic that community leaders are important; IndiaSpora members and many Indian Indian officials who were recently appointed in the Biden government, gathered.
“The time has come for us to be serious where the next border is in the US-Indian bond,” said Nisha Desai Biswal, the President of the US Indian Business Council.
Both for the United States and for India, the two largest economies in the world, whether it can be bound to be outside the Trans-Pacific partnership and does not have trade architecture among themselves, he added.
“We started seeing a real signal interesting from India to be able to explore it.
So, I think it’s time to be serious.
It’s not easy.
It’s a way full of all kinds of obstacles,” he said.
“I’ve heard it described me that trade negotiations were a blade battle in a dark alley.
It’s time for us to put a knife, turn on light, down to business,” he said in a lighter vein and urged a strong group of Americans to involve the two governments about this problem.
In a brief comment on that occasion, Neera Tanden, senior adviser to President Biden, said it was very important to have Indian-Americans at the table, contributing, involved and involved in helping to make decisions.
“As it says a lot before, if you are not at the table, you are on the menu.
That’s why your voice is very important, your role here in everything you do is very important.” Former US Ambassador to India, Richard Verma, said the visit of Prime Minister Narendra successfully recently was a new chapter in this important bilateral relationship.
“We have to do it now.
The president gives us a road map to take part in trade and health and the climate and security and more.
I am actually very passionate about bilateral bonds and also a broader quadrilateral climate too,” he said.
The Indian-American Congress, King Krishnamoorthi and Ami Bera also talked about that opportunity.
Krishnamoorthi thanked the Diaspora for their outpouring for pandemic assistance.
(With input from PTI)