It is definitely a swashbuckling news that Obama is going to grace the occasion of
next republic day parade in India. He has accepted Modi’s invitation, which is
one of the rare incidents in the history of Indian politics. He is the first
president of the USA who has ever accepted this sort of invitation and the full
credit, undoubtedly, goes to Modi. Perhaps Modi’s repartee, intelligent gesture
and friendly confabulations expressed in his last visit to the USA, prompt Obama to accept this invitation to be
present on 26th January,
2015. The White House press secretary Josh Earnest has acknowledged this visit,
which evokes a tremendous sensation here in India politically. The Republic Day is basically celebrated in
commemoration and adoption of India’s constitution and when the said type of
celebration is observed by none other than the President of USA, this itself
shows how Modi has snared the biggest power of the world. Needless to say,
Obama will meet Modi and other top officials of India to strengthen and expand the
India-US business and economic relationship. The announcement of this impending
visit was flashed by White House immediately after Modi tweeted this missive
that the American President has accepted his invitation to honor the function
of the 66th Republic Day Parade.
Obama is the only President who had travelled to
India twice with his first visit in India comprising of the megacities of
Mumbai and Delhi.
Importantly, Obama has overlooked his domestic
itinerary of delivering the annual state address to the Congress at that
particular time and also as per the political system prevailed in the USA,
White House never announces the visit plan of their President so much in
advance. So, this is also a precedent for them. All these deviations are
basically because of the perseverance and convincing ability of Modi. It is not
out of the context to mention here that the
fruitful meeting between the two leaders of the respective countries on 29th
and 30th September, 2014 respectively has made a tremendous impact.
Further, Obama’s decision of visiting India
within a span of a little less than four months is only countering the miserabalism,
which USA showed earlier to Modi. Now, a good sense of friendship and relationship are getting
induced between the two countries and after this visit, the same may cross all
the barriers of red tapism, if any, to augment the investment and transfer of
technology in India.
Seeing the hype in both the countries, Obama is a bit
worried not to annoy the Pakistan’s administration and hours after this announcement,
he phoned Sherrif to assuage his feelings. His mollifying telephonic
conversation from his travel to Las Vegas in the last week, prompts Sheriff to
make a fervent appeal to Obama to raise the sensitive issue of Kashmir in the
imminent visit. Pakistan is very much worried of this extra bonding of the two countries
and at the same time USA is equally disgusted and getting flustered by Pakistan’s inability to
cease the cross border terrorism. Pakistan has been demanding the equal
diplomatic treatment from the USA and
they are getting denial most of the time. As per the record, Obama was in Pakistan for a few hours on his way back after a five day visit to
India in 2006 and Bush also stopped by during his return from a 2006 trip to
India.
Despite Pakistan’s intensified claim that they are
one of the closest allies of the USA, but the fact is that Obama did not visit
them in 2010 when he visited India. To soothe their feelings amalgamated with
hurt, Obama assured Pakistan to visit in 2011, but that remains in the paper
only.
Pakistan is not able to tolerate the profundity of
Modi’s popularity in the world’s political scenario and despite Sheriff’s visit
in India during the oath ceremony of PM, Modi in May 2014, he is pumping all
types of accusations like cancellation of secretariat level meetings,
unprovoked firing across the line of control causing casualties of civilians and
India’s die hard attitude not to strengthen the bi-lateral relationship with Pakistan,
but USA is not accepting all these allegations, which is evident from Obama’s quick and spontaneous
decision to grace the occasion of Republic Day.
In short, India and particularly Modi have shown the
world that the world’s great power like the USA can not overlook India any
more.
Face Book: All Indians whoever will be present on
this occasion, will feel proud because none other than the President of America
will be in their midst and they will be able to see or feel his company, even
from a distance. And this time, this celebration will be more gorgeous and vivacious because of the USA
President Obama’s presence.
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