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Washington (IANS): The US, Alan Kronstadt, specialist in South which had shunned Narendra Modi Asian affairs, for the bipartisan for nearly 10 years, is eager to Congressional Research Service engage India's new government led (CRS). by him and re-energize what some "Garnering an outright majority in see as a flagging relationship, Parliament for the first time in 30 according to a new Congressional years, Modi's new government report. Modi "is known as a strongwilled and effective, if perhaps autocratic, administrator," said the background report for US lawmakers. "His reputation has been burnished by Gujarat's impressive economic performance during his 15-year tenure," it said noting the promises fresh US engagement with state accounts for more than 20 an Indian leader reputed to be more percent of all Indian exports while pro-trade and pro-business than the being home to only 5 percent of the socialist-oriented ones of the past," it said. population," it said. Modi, the report noted had also The report on "India's New Government and Implications for vowed to "implement a more US Interests" has been penned by K. assertive Indian foreign policy that
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could see the country shift away from its traditional 'non-alignment' approach to global politics." His "BJP made history by becoming the first party to win an outright parliamentary majority in 30 years, meaning India's federal
government is no longer constrained by the vagaries of coalition politics," the report noted. Domestic and international proponents of Modi's businessfriendly policies are hopeful that these circumstances will make for more effective governance and
streamlined economic reforms, it said. But Modi "also is a controversial figure for his Hindu nationalist views" and his alleged role in 2002 Gujarat riots led the Bush Administration to deny Modi a visa in 2005, the report noted. "Many observers warn that a BJPmajority government could have dire consequences for human and civil rights in India, especially if it chooses to implement openly Hindu majoritarian policies," the report said. However, it noted "Obama wasted no time in ending speculation on the visa issue by immediately inviting Prime Minister Modi to visit Washington, DC." He is now set to visit the US capital in late September.
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Washington (IANS): A US court Justice (SFJ) and one Inderjit Singh here has ruled that former India had alleged that Manmohan Singh prime minister Manmohan Singh had "tortured and killed Indian Sikhs had "head of state immunity" from during his time at the helm of that claims that he supported violence country's government and, before against Sikhs, but it did not cover his then, as Finance Minister," the judge noted. Accepting the State tenure as finance minister. US District Judge James Boasberg Department suggestion of immuin the District of Columbia Tuesday nity, the judge ruled that "although ruled that Manmohan Singh was he is no longer a head of state, Singh entitled to "residual immunity" even is entitled to residual immunity for after he ceased to be the prime acts taken in his official capacity as minister as suggested by the US Prime Minister." But because such residual State Department. US-based rights group Sikhs for immunity does not cover actions
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Singh pursued before taking office, minister, Manmohan Singh was however, the allegations stemming accused of being complicit in the from his time as Finance Minister torture and killing of hundreds of survive." thousands of Sikhs and for shielding SFJ and Inderjit Singh had the perpetrators. Boasberg ruled claimed in the 2013 suit that as that US law bars former heads of finance minister between 1991 and state from being sued for actions 1996, Manmohan Singh "funded they took while in office, but not for several counter insurgency private acts or those taken in prior operations in state of Punjab during government posts. the 1990s resulting in more than However, "while Singh's alleged hundred thousand Sikhs being acts as Finance Minister are not killed extra- judicially by the security 'private' per se, they did not occur in forces". the course of his official duties as During his tenure as prime head of state," Boasberg wrote.
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