Joe Biden not a stranger to India: Jaishankar on India-US ties under new administration

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Tuesday said that ties between India and the States will expand further under the Joe Biden-administration. He also noted that he was part of the period when bilateral relations underwent a radical transformation, news agency PTI reported.

“As vice president, we dealt with him. I happened to be the ambassador during the last phase of the Obama administration. We’d known him earlier when he was in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee as the ranking Democratic member and then as the chairman,” PTI quoted Jaishankar as saying.

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“He (Biden) is very much part of this period when Indo-American relations underwent a radical transformation, which I reasonably date back to (Bill) Clinton’s visit,” Jaishankar said.

Jaishankar said President-elect Biden is “not a stranger” to India or to the relationship between the two countries.

“I am very confident that we will pick up where we left off, we have done that over the last four administrations.

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“I think that will be the case as well here and I also say that because within the American politics, it’s not just that we deal with the administration of the day, we also tend to deal with the Congress,” Jaishankar said.

“American politics by its nature has very strong elements of bipartisanship,” he said.