Great scope for taking India-US relationship exponentially forward: Shringla

There is a great scope for taking India-US relationship exponentially forward by engaging the diaspora and the states of the both nations, India's envoy here has said.

India's new Ambassador to the US, Harsh V Shringla, who presented his credentials to President Donald Trump on January 11, in recent days met top American lawmakers, including Senator Mark warner, Co-Chair of the Senate India caucus, Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard and Congressman George Holding, who are Co-Chairs of the House India Caucus and Congressman Eliot Engel, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

Despite the longest partial government shutdown, Shringla has had a series of introductory meetings in various wings of the Trump administration including the State Department and the Pentagon.

He said after his meetings with US officials, he "got a sense of how our relationship is viewed, the importance given by the US side to the India-US relations, the scope for taking it exponentially forward; and also addressing as we go along some of the issues that can help in providing inputs into the new initiatives that we take..."