Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Minister of Foreign Affairs of India, who repeatedly got tangled in Canada, he said last year that many countries were nervous after the re -election of US President Donald Trump.
But he said that India “is not one of them.”
This week, the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi will visit Trump in the White House, the second foreign leader who did it after Israel Benjamin Netanyahu – a close friend of Modi.
The talks have already taken place between Jaishankar and the Secretary of US State Marco Rubio, strongly indicate what is in the agenda.
The United States wants India to buy more American weapons (India has always been a loyal customer of the Russian arms industry). He also wants to talk about immigration and deportations with India, which hopes to keep the H-1B visa and others who will open the door to Indian IT Workers.
They will certainly talk about trade and commercial barriers.
But almost certainly did not happen what happened at G20 in New Delhi in September 2023, when the then President Joe Biden talked to Modi about the alleged plots of the India government to kill his enemies in North America.
Fall Guy accepted
It was the US government who provided Canada a part of a critical interview that allowed it to blame the Indian government confidently Actions of the hit team This killed the Canadian citizen Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Surrey, BC (and probably many other people).
When India denied these allegations, the US government took the Canada side and told India to cooperate with Canadian investigators.
It was also the US government who complained about New Delhi A conspiracy on your own landTargeted at the US-CANDADA citizen Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, who lives in New York.
The allegations, not Canada's allegations regarding Nijjar, prompted India to recognize that his own officials were actually involved in planning crimes in North America – although with the incredible claim that they acted as dishonest agents.
But this pressure seems to disappear, and Washington is apparently ready to accept a fairly transparent trick, which is trying to blame one India official – the alleged Vikash agent “Vikas” Yadav.
Yadav was accused in Zagłębień by the US authorities in October last year for his alleged role in the pannun plot and remains wanted man.
Maneuvering between the USA and India around the Yadava case resembles dance That Washington went through Saudi Arabia after the murder of a Saudi dissident and correspondent Washington Post Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.
Although the CIA announced that the murder was conducted towards Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, the US government finally agreed to the official version that blamed and punished the alleged dishonest agents in Saudi intelligence.
The reluctance of the scapegoat
But if the plan is to do something similar so that the problem with Pananun disappears, the autumn designated – unlike his Saudi counterparts – may be ready to resist this role.
Reports in Indian media Suggest that he feels difficult and has the support of his hometown, in which he is seen as a patriot and a local hero, and some threatened “rebellion” if he tried to imprison him.
“There is certainly pressure to have some responsibility,” said political scientist Sanjay Ruparelia. “It seems that Mr. Yadav was accused and released and arrested. There are various reports about whether it is now free or not. “
After the accusation of Yadav, in India it was assumed that the USA Look for his extradition. But it seems that this did not happen, at least in public.
“Regardless of whether the US is pressing on India, so that it works, it is unclear,” said Ruparelia, “whether other arrests take place.”
Never more help from Washington
However, it seems clear that the United States is much less prone to exerting pressure on India to the murder plots under Trump's command than they were under Biden, including a murder conspiracy, which was aimed at a US citizen on American earth.
“I think it must be worried about us in Canada,” said Ruparelia. “This is not an administration that is involved in the rule of law from any episode that we can see, and considering who President Trump was pardoned, given that he was appointed very higher positions in his administration, I think this is a problem.”
Among these nominees are Tulsi Gabbard, named by Trump as the director of the National Intelligence (days), and Kash Patel, proposed by Trump director of the FBI.
Both have a history of support and compassion for the Modi government Conducting Hindutva ideology.
In her opening statement at the interrogation in confirmation, Gabbard argued that she was not a “Modi puppet”.
Gabbard was Named as chairman World Hindu Congress, an international organization related to the Hindu nationalist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), although she later asked for it released from this role.
Modi is a lifetime member of the RSS, a paramilitary cousin of his party Bharatiya Janata (BJP).
In 2013, Gabbard, then Congressmen from Hawaii, opposed a home resolution condemning RSS violence against Muslims and Christian minorities in India. Federation of Indian American Christian organizations opposed Her nomination for days as “very dangerous” and “putting a fox responsible for the henhouse.”
FBI Pick defends the temple of the framework
The pan was publicly supporting construction of the controversial Hindu temple in the city of Ajodhja.
The temple was the result of a long -term dispute between Hindus and Muslims above the Holy place for both. The sectarian campaign from the 90s of Hindu nationalists, including Modi, was a formative event that gave his BJP.
At the top of the campaign in 1992, Hindu MOB destroyed a 470-year-old mosque, and at least 2,000 people were killed during the riots. Fresh riots in the dispute of Ajodhja in 2002 killed over 1,000 subsequent modi, the then Governor of the Gujarat province, was accused of inciting the riots. The case hung over his head for 10 years before he was cleaned by the Supreme Court of India.
Last year, Modi supervised the consecration of the new Hindu temple financed by the state, meaning the opportunity with confirmation of its Hindists of the first ideology: “RAM is a faith of India, RAM is the foundation of India, RAM is RAM IDEA INDII, RAM is the law of India … RAM is a leader and RAM is a politics. “
Fry Modi takenArguing that “there was a Hindu temple for one of the quintessence of the gods in the Hindu pantheon in 1500, which were overthrown and tried to recover it for 500 years.”
He accused the “establishment in Washington” of “a disinformation campaign, which is harmful to India and Prime Minister's position.”
Modi-Maga's report is wide
Canadian intelligence experts and former officials have warned that the nominees threaten intelligence cooperation between the US and its former allies.
These fears were more focused on Gabbard's connections with Russian Vladimir Putin and Bashar Syria Assad and on a Patel conversation about the prosecution of political enemies than on relations with India.
But the former director of CSIS, Ward Elcock, says that there is a coincidence of interests and ideology between Hindutva Modi and the magician of Trump, and even among right -wing populist movements around the world.
“I think that we can probably count less on the fact that Americans in the near future a heavy line with the government of India,” said CBC News.
Elcock claims that the affinity for the Modi government is not limited to individual officials, such as Gabbard and Patel, but is rather a common feature of populist governments around the world, and many on the right in Canada.
Trump himself talked about his passion for Modi, and even seemed to express compassion and admiration for the alleged readiness of Modi to aim and kill his government's enemies abroad.
On the podcast GlaringTrump said about Modi: “He is great, he is my friend. … He looks like your father outside, he is the nicest guy, but he is a total killer.”
Trump remembered the interaction of Modi in “Howdy Modi“Diaspora rally in Houston in 2019.
“He is the nicest man, but we had several opportunities when someone was threatening India,” Trump remembered, saying that he suggested to help Modi cope with these threats.
Then Trump imitated the Indian accent and with a cited approval Modi reaction: “I'll do it, I will do it, I will do everything necessary.”