No sooner had India’s election results confirmed a third term for Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the head of a multiparty coalition than U.S. President Joe Biden announced that he is sending his national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, to New Delhi “to engage the new government on shared U.S.-India priorities.”
Heads of state or government from neighboring countries were invited to the new Modi government’s weekend inauguration as well.
With a busy foreign-policy agenda awaiting him, Modi is expected to hit the ground running right after he is sworn in. He is scheduled to attend as a special invitee to the Group of Seven summit from June 13 to 15 in Apulia, Italy, where he is likely to hold discussions on the sidelines with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, among others.