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| Ready to do business with Narendra |
| Ready to do business with Narendra Modi, says US
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| INDIA
, 8-March-2014
2:14:21 AM |
| The United States would welcome BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi if he wins the upcoming election, a US official said, in the clearest sign that Washington will drop a travel ban on Mr Modi, imposed after the 2002 riots in Gujarat.
US Assistant Secretary of State Nisha Biswal told a television interviewer that Washington was ready to do business with Mr Modi, the front runner ahead of the April-May general election who is best placed to form a coalition government.
"I would just say that the United States has welcomed every leader of this vibrant democracy, and that a democratically elected leader of India will be a welcome partner," Ms Biswal told a news channel when asked if Mr Modi, as prime minister, would be granted a US visa.
Ms Biswal made her comments in New Delhi on a visit to rebuild trade and political ties shaken by a row over the arrest of Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade last December in New York.
US Ambassador to India Nancy Powell visited Mr Modi at his home in Gandhinagar last month, ending a long estrangement over the riots that erupted in Gujarat.
At least 1,000 people, most of them Muslims, were killed in 2002 when mobs went on a rampage across Gujarat after a train carrying Hindu pilgrims was torched, killing 59 people.
Ms Powell's visit was the highest-profile encounter between US officials and Mr Modi since the State Department revoked his visa in 2005 over the bloodshed to which rights activists say he turned a blind eye. He denies the allegation.
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