New Delhi: narendra modi and subrahmanyam jaishankar first met in november 2011. The ace diplomat became New Delhi's envoy to beijing while the then-leader minister of gujarat was on a tour to China.

That they took a direct liking for every different came out within the public area on january 28, 2015, nearly 8 months after Modi had become the high minister.

Barack Obama, the then-president of America, had just flown back to Washington after attending the Republic Day ceremony of india because the leader visitor.

Modi's outside affairs minister, sushma Swaraj, referred to Foreign Secretary sujatha Singh to her office late within the evening and instructed her that she might need to step aside because the top minister had become eager to replace her with jaishankar, then New Delhi's envoy to the United States.

Singh resigned that night, even though her tenure would have come to an end in eight months.

Jaishankar, who had come to New delhi for the united states president's visit, took over as India's top diplomat the subsequent morning, even though he might have retired from the indian overseas carrier simply two days later.

His appointment as the overseas secretary seemed to be a reward for arranging Modi's tour to Washington and the Big apple in september 2014—a go-to that spectacularly ended his pariah reputation in America, which had as soon as denied him a visa over the 2002 gujarat riots.

Jaishankar's diplomatic career ended on january 28, 2018, after he finished not only thel 3-year-lengthy tenure as the foreign secretary but also an extension of a year. He, but, lower back to the government on may 30, 2019, this time as the external affairs minister, elbowing out Swaraj. The alumnus of St. Stephen's college and jawaharlal nehru University in New delhi accordingly has become the second career diplomat after K. Natwar Singh to reach the helm of the Ministry of External Affairs.

Manmohan's first preference

Modi's predecessor, manmohan Singh, also wanted to reward jaishankar, the son of the plenty-respected 'guru' of strategic affairs K. Subrahmanyam, with an out-of-turn advertising to the workplace of the foreign secretary, in recognition of his function in clinching the landmark India-US civil nuclear cooperation agreement. However, the circulation turned into a stall by means of the top brass of the congress in august 2013.

After Singh passed away in december 2024, jaishankar paid tribute to the previous high minister, acknowledging his role in steering "strategic corrections" to the foreign policy of India.

Within the last six years, on the grounds that his plunge into politics, Jaishankar—now in his 2nd time period as the external affairs minister and a bjp member within the Rajya Sabha—has been steadfastly loyal to Modi.

highbrow part

He now not only sharply countered each grievance by means of the congress and other competition events against the BJP-led government in the overseas policy area but also brought a highbrow aspect to the saffron celebration's blame-it-all-on-Nehru campaign, especially on issues associated with India's complex relations with pakistan and China.

He defended the Modi authorities while the congress accused the top minister of failing to defend India's territory from competitive moves by using china in Japanese Ladakh.

He alleged that india had lost good-sized swathes of its land to china in 1962 while Nehru headed the authorities. In reaction to the Congress' grievance over New Delhi's allegedly inadequate reaction to the incursion through the humans' Liberation Navy, he explained the motive of india, being a smaller economic system in comparison to china, warding off a confrontation with the neighbor throughout the Himalayas.

Jaishankar's announcement approximately New delhi informing Islamabad approximately the release of Operation Sindoor "on the start" of India's military strikes on terrorist camps in pakistan and Pak-occupied kashmir (PoK) earlier this month precipitated congress heavyweight and leader of the competition in the Lok Sabha, rahul gandhi, to impeach who had accredited informing the neighboring USA approximately the army offensive.

The MEA tacitly accused gandhi of misrepresenting information, clarifying that india had knowledge of approximately 'Operation Sindoor' while the military offensive was already in its early phase, not before it started.

In advance, when gandhi alleged that jaishankar visited Washington in december 2024 to secure an invite for top minister narendra modi to the inauguration of donald trump as the 47th president of the USA, the outside affairs minister hit back, saying the statements of the opposition leader were hurting India's countrywide hobbies.

Jaishankar also got here underneath grievance for failing to properly respond to China's growing footprint in India's neighborhood. He argued a policy of "staying on the right aspect of the weapon" to keep away from being hit.

However, India's move to begin negotiations for a trade deal with the united states could not keep it from Trump's tariff tirade. The American president's repeated claims about brokering a ceasefire between india and pakistan additionally exposed the disconnect between New delhi and Washington.

Bashing the West

In limitless talking occasions and interviews, the outside affairs minister has tried to reveal the hypocrisy of the West, whilst india drew flak from America and europe for continuing to shop for crude oil from russia after the ukraine conflict.

Jaishankar mentioned how the US had, in the past, denied india entry to the advanced era and navy hardware and had instead chosen to arm the adversaries of India.

"Whilst we take a look at the world, we search for partners; we don't look for preachers," he these days said, constructing on his argument that "countrywide interests" might shape the contours of the overseas policy of India.

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01/06/2025 06:24 AM