NEW DELHI : While security agencies of both India and United states are on their tenterhooks to ensure an incident free trip of President Barack Obama, high-level diplomatic teams are burning mid-night oil to see that the visit resulted in some deliverables.
This has becomes all the more important because the promises held out at time of the last visit of Mr Obama to India did not materialise.
And also because, this is the first time that any US President was visiting India twice in his tenure. Mr Obama during his first visit in 2010 had announced business deals of 10 billion dollars, and stated that the US-India relationship would be one of the defining partnership of the 21st century.
However, the progress on the mother of deals, the nuclear deal with the US , which was concluded as one of the greatest achievements of UPA 1 under the leadership of Dr Manmohan Singh, remained held up due to the Nuclear liabilility law enacted a year later after Mr Obama’s visit.
Moreover, the expected investment from the US did not happen as the Manmohan Singh Government could not in its last days gather enough political will to implement the economic reforms that the US investors cited as one of the prerequisites for going ahead.
However, after the change of the Government and coming into power of the Narendra Modi headed government with an absolute majority things began changing.
And the message of change was very forcefully conveyed to Mr Obama by Mr Modi in person when he met him in Washington during his September visit.
It was during this visit that Mr Modi extended an invitation to Mr Obama to be the chief guest at the Republic Day function, and the acceptance of the invitation by the US President was itself an indication of the mood in his Administration to go all out for infusing a new vigour in the “defining partnership of the 21st century.”
(AGENCIES)
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