Washington, July 10, 2021 (PPI-OT):In order to ramp up its relations with India, US President Joe Biden nominated Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti as ambassador to India.
But Garcetti, the first Jewish mayor of Los Angeles, would head to India amid growing concern in the United States, especially among Democrats, over the treatment of minorities under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government.
Biden as a candidate voiced disappointment over a citizenship law pushed by Modi that critics say would disenfranchise Muslims; and the State Department last year voiced rare, if muted, criticism of India over a sweeping crackdown in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
According to political analysts and experts appointment of Eric Garcetti is made at a time when the United States is seeking to flesh out a burgeoning relationship with India in the face of an increasingly assertive China, the only other nation of a billion-plus people in the region.
While being Jewish, Garcetti’s sympathies with Israel and India’s friendship with Tel Aviv is seen a point that will take a new turn in annals of history as both Israel and India have upped the ante against Muslim populations in their respective countries.
They said that Garcetti would escape Los Angeles at a time when he is facing rising criticism including over homelessness, long a scourge in the City of Angels, while his former deputy mayor was charged in a corruption scandal in which city officials allegedly accepted kickbacks over zoning decisions and another top aide was accused of sexual misconduct.
“Some Black Lives Matter protesters had urged Biden not to pick Garcetti for any role over his handling of the police department, which bespeaks his attitude towards the minorities,” they added.
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