U.S., India can achieve headway in defence, technologies and economic prosperity in Modi 3.0: Eric Garcetti

U.S. envoy Eric Garcetti highlights the potential for progress in defence, technology, and economy through India-U.S. partnership in Modi 3.0.

Progress in defence partnerships, critical emerging technologies and economic prosperity can be achieved when an “ambitious India” works with an “ambitious America” during Modi 3.0, U.S. envoy Eric Garcetti has said.

Congratulating Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the BJP and the ruling NDA coalition for their successful election, Mr. Garcetti said in Modi 3.0 is a time to turn dreams of the bilateral relationship into reality.

“I think in Modi 3.0, it’s a time for us to take our dreams and to really make them reality,” Mr. Garcetti said in the interview with PTI, the first by a senior Biden Administration official after the recent general elections in India in which after which Prime Minister Modi was voted to power for a historic third consecutive term.

“Whether it’s the work that we’re doing together on our defence partnership, whether it’s our critical emerging technologies, or whether it’s the work that we’re doing to build economic prosperity, I think those three things in Modi 3.0, we can look forward to seeing an ambitious India working with an ambitious America to achieve,” Mr. Garcetti said.

“I think 3.0 is all about how we make the U.S. and India, again, this relationship that can do good not only for our people but in the world, that can show the world that democracies are better than dictatorships, that a free and open Indo-Pacific is something that is a benefit to every human being,” he said.

Mr. Garcetti, who recently completed one year as the United States envoy to India, said that during Prime Minister Modi’s second term, “we saw a state visit, the visit of the President during G20, and over 150 agreements reached on everything from the seabed to the stars”. “Whether it’s in space, whether it’s in health, whether it’s in defence, whether it’s in trade, we resolved past conflicts and really moved forward with our ambitions in the future,” the 53-year-old former Mayor of Los Angeles city, said.

Mr. Garcetti, a close confidant of President Joe Biden is currently in Washington DC to attend the Select USA Summit, in which India has the largest delegation.