As a US Senator blackmails India on CAA, Farmers and what not, the Biden administration is in for a impolite shock

Chairman of the United States’ Senate Foreign Relations Committee has shot off a letter to USA’s Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin, who’s on a two-day go to to India from March 19 – March 21. In his letter, the international affairs committee chair, Robert Menendez has sought to blackmail India, by making an attempt to intrude within the inside affairs of the nation. Interestingly, the letter which was shot to the Secretary of Defence who has chosen India as one of many locations for his maiden international tour has just one level underneath his mandate – the acquisition of Russian S-400 missile programs by India.Apart from this concern, the others which have been laid down by Menendez merely don’t fall underneath the ambit of the Pentagon, and as a consequence, of Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin. Lloyd Austin is scheduled to fulfill his counterpart Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, together with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and National Security Advisor Ajit Doval, throughout his go to to New Delhi. Robert Menendez, nonetheless, doesn’t appear to be liking the bonhomie between India and U.S., which is why he has taken to blackmailing New Delhi and unilaterally threatening it of sanctions.Menendez mentioned that if India selected to go ahead with its plan to buy the Russian S-400 missile system, it will clearly represent a sanctionable transaction with the Russian defence sector underneath provisions of the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act or CAATSA. “It will also limit India’s ability to work with the US on development and procurement of sensitive military technology. I expect you to make all of these challenges clear in conversations with your Indian counterparts,” he mentioned.Making his inclinations and anti-India bias clear, the Senate Foreign Relation Committee chair additionally wrote, “The Indian government’s ongoing crackdown on farmers peacefully protesting new farming laws and corresponding intimidation of journalists and government critics only underscores the deteriorating situation of democracy in India…Moreover, in recent years, rising anti-Muslim sentiment and related government actions like the Citizenship Amendment Act, the suppression of political dialogue and arrest of political opponents following the abrogation of Article 370 in Kashmir, and the use of sedition laws to persecute political opponents have resulted in the US human rights group Freedom House stripping India of its ‘Free’ status in its yearly global survey.”Although Menendez could be making an attempt to carve a picture for himself within the United States, for causes greatest identified to him; relaxation assured, his blackmailing of India will yield no outcomes. Instead, it’s extremely probably that if the United States tries to meddle within the nation’s inside affairs, it is going to be responded to in sort. Already, America has been thrashed by China humiliatingly in Alaska. It would undoubtedly not need one other scolding by India.The United States underneath a Biden administration will probably be effectively suggested to not strive its luck round with India, as New Delhi might fairly actually make life extra depressing for the White House occupants than it already is. In the Indo Pacific and ASEAN area, India has emerged as a drive to be reckoned with, and is the pure ally of any democracy-loving nation on the planet envisaging the safety of a rules-based order within the area. As such, the U.S., at a time when it’s quickly shedding allies, shouldn’t infuriate India with some chairman of some committee lecturing us about what we must always and shouldn’t do.Moreover, India has emerged a central participant and the pivot of the Quad – a strategic alliance of Japan, Australia, U.S. and India to tackle China. Being the chief of Quad, India would most definitely not welcome the United States’ legislators meddling in its affairs and passing unsubstantiated and superficial commentary towards it. The U.S. should be cautious to not push India to desert it relating to the containment of China.Finally, the mentioned American legislator ought to merely get a historical past lesson. The Modi authorities has by no means bowed to fallacious worldwide anti-India rhetoric, particularly relating to international powers making an attempt to meddle in our inside affairs. For its personal pursuits, U.S. legislators like Menendez should not act by their inherent biases, however ought to as an alternative take a look at the larger image. If individuals like him need India to desert Russia, then that the majority definitely isn’t occurring.