Wherever they are, the Indian Diaspora keeps India’s identity alive: Rajnath Singh
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Defence Minister Rajnath Singh praised Indian-Americans for keeping the “full identity” of their culture thousands of miles away from their homeland, saying that they keep India’s identity alive wherever they are in the world.
The defence minister was in Washington, DC for the India-US 2+2 ministerial. He then flew to Hawaii for discussions at Indopacific headquarters before heading to San Francisco.
Singh described his five-day visit to the United States as productive, saying he had a great discussion with his American counterpart, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.
Singh met with Austin on Monday and discussed the full range of bilateral defence cooperation as well as the regional security situation, notably in the Indo-Pacific and the wider Indian Ocean Region.
During a public dinner hosted in his honour by the Indian Consulate in San Francisco on Thursday, Singh addressed a group of Indian-Americans, “I congratulate you for keeping this whole Indian identity.”
Indians who live outside of India are always proud to identify themselves as Indians.
Singh claimed this was his fourth trip to the United States in his political career and his first to San Francisco. In the United States, the Indian community has established itself. This is the product of the community’s efforts, he emphasised.
The largest democratic powers, India and the United States, have the ability to generate global “peace and prosperity.”
According to him, the US-India relationship is diverse, including economic, strategic, and defence aspects. On Friday, he is supposed to go to India from San Francisco.
According to Singh, the Indian Diaspora, which continues to rise to new heights in the United States, is crucial to this relationship.
People in India are constantly proud of the accomplishments made by people of Indian descent or the diaspora. For example, when Parag Agarwal became the CEO of Twitter, Indians felt proud that one of their own had been appointed to the position, which he said to cheer.
Similarly, he continued, there are other tech executives in the United States among us, such as Microsoft’s Satya Nadella and Google’s Sunder Pichai.
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