After importing a 50% tariff on goods it imports from India, the United States has imposed a very large fee on the H1B visa that allows Indian software professionals to work in America. Both these actions will have a massive economic impact on India. The tariff on Indian exports has started hurting textiles, diamonds, leather goods and many other sector that employs crores of Indians. The visa fee will impact not just the thousands of Indians who go to the United States to work but the lacs of people working in India’s IT sector. The United States is treating India at par with countries like Iran and Russia with which it has long-standing conflicts. How has India fallen to such a low position in international relations?

The answer is very simple- our foreign policy over the last decade has been conducted only to build Modi ji’s domestic image and secure his industrialist friends’ foreign contracts. India’s interests have figured nowhere in India’s foreign policy. As a result, India is at its weakest in terms of influence in World affairs. The countries Modi ji visits are determined not by India’s strategic interests but by how grand a reception Modi ji will be given. In these countries, Modi ji’s agenda is not meant to advance India’s position but to secure business deals for his corporate funders. All of our neighbors have turned against us. We have lost our relationship with every major power apart from the United States on whom we now depend upon economically and militarily. The United States knows this. It understands that India has no friends left and feels it can force India to comply with its demands. America also realizes that Modi ji himself does not have the courage to stand up to their pressure. This is the reason they have been emboldened to treat India this way.

Leading a country requires more than just loud speeches and declarations of a 56-inch chest. It requires wisdom, vision, and courage, none of which the Prime Minister or those around him seem to possess.

Jai Congress. Jai Hind. Jai Jagat.