Click to play videoNew Delhi: The US elections result being keenly monitored back home but New Delhi seems does not have much to worry about. There appears to be no threat to the Indo-US nuclear deal.
CNN-IBN has learnt that that the nuclear deal is slated to be tabled in the Senate on November 17.
Should New Delhi be worried about the Bushwhacking in the US Congressional elections? Not many in India are breaking into a cold sweat at the Republican drubbing despite the high stakes Indo-US nuclear deal being critically poised for legislative approval in Washington.
The general view in New Delhi is that the US policy on India will remain unchanged.
“So far as Indo-US relations are concerned, there is a very large bi-partisan support in the US that is partly because in the US, there is a clear understanding that they need India much more than there is understanding in India that we need the US," Strategic Analyst K Subrahmaniam says.
Sources have told CNN-IBN that the Bush Administration will table the nuclear deal for approval by the US Senate on November 16 in what is being dubbed as the lame duck session.
If all goes according to schedule, the deal, which has already been approved by the Congress, should get a go-ahead by the Senate by November 23.
The view that the nuclear deal is as good as passed is shared by India watchers in the US.
Ex-US Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott says, “Senator Hillary Clinton, who is, by the way, the Democratic co-chair of the India Caucus in the Senate, has publicly supported the deal. I think that there would not be any substantial differences between a Democratic and Republican Administration on this issue in the future."
The present thinking is that Indo-US ties are no longer regime specific, and have in stead, graduated to an all-weather relationship.
With Parul Malhotra
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