The parivar in America

The controversy that has been raging about Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's US visa suggests that for the BJP, the United States is particularly important — and this is even truer for Gujarat. This is largely due to the upgrading of political, educational (some 1,00,000 Indian students are enrolled in US universities) and economic bilateral relations over the last 10 years or so. But it also derives from the assertion of the Indian diaspora in the US.

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