India is a vibrant democracy which has constitutionally enshrined rights for minorities for freedom of religion, a senior Trump Administration official said Wednesday.
The United States has conversations about human rights with all countries including India, Alice Wells, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia, told Washington audience.
"India is a vibrant democracy which has constitutionally enshrined rights for minorities, for freedom of religion," she said.
In response to a question if human rights issue came up during the recently held 2+2 Dialogue between India and the US on September 6 in New Delhi, she said, "We respect democracies. We respect democracies because we believed democracies are self correcting because there are institutions at play."
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