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Obama quietly reverses Hillary's 'get Modi' policy

By Madhav Nalapat
The SUnday Guardian
April 19, 2014

New Delhi - US President Barack Obama has quietly
reversed a policy initiated by former Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton, to "get Narendra Modi" -- ostensibly for
the 2002 Gujarat riots, but in actuality "for taking
stands that may be different from that favoured by the US
administration" -- in the words of a senior analyst in
New York.

"Hillary Clinton likes to operate through NGOs, which are
given funding through indirect channels, and which target
individuals and countries seen as less than respectful to
her views on foreign and domestic policy in the target
countries," a retired US official now based in Atlanta
said. He claimed that "rather than US NGOs, (the former)
Secretary of State Clinton favoured operating through
organisations based in the Netherlands, Denmark and the
Scandinavian countries, especially Norway" as these were
outside the radar of big power politics. These NGOs were
active in the agitation against the Russian nuclear power
plant at Kudankulam in Tamil Nadu, with "funding coming
mainly from a religious organisation based in Europe that
has close links with France".

Incidentally, French companies are in direct competition
with Russian rivals in seeking to expand the market for
nuclear reactors in India. The senior official, now on a
visit to India, claimed that "your (i.e. the Manmohan
Singh) government has full details of the religious
organisation involved in funding the Kudankulam protests,
but is keeping this secret as the organisation has high-
level backers" in the UPA.

These present and retired officials claimed that "during
the tenure in office of Secretary Clinton, several expert
teams in the guise of NGOs were sent to Gujarat to try
and find mass graves". The purpose was to then take the
matter to the Office of the UN Commissioner of Human
Rights in Geneva as an example of genocide. "In 2011,
some bones were discovered in a Gujarat field by one of
the search teams and there was much excitement, but these
were later found to be buffalo bones", an official said.
The official added that "no evidence whatsoever of mass
graves was uncovered in Gujarat despite six years of
clandestine searching for them" by undercover experts
posing as representatives of NGOs. He added that "five
politicians, three from the state and two in Delhi,
assisted the search teams, but the information given by
them proved unproductive".

Finally, "now that Secretary Clinton had stepped down
from office, by end-2012 orders were given to stop
wasting time on the search for mass graves in Gujarat,
much to the dismay of those NGOs who were getting
significant funding as a consequence of the search
operations". Interestingly, the senior official claimed
that because of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's inability
to water down the Nuclear Liability Act and Defence
Minister A.K. Antony's decision to prefer the French
Rafale fighter to its US rival, "orders were given to
activate the Khalistan file so as to create embarrassment
for Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh".

Another official, now retired, claimed that "since 2011,
several search teams have been active in Punjab, seeking
human remains in suspected mass graves". According to
them, "key politicians in Punjab have assisted these
search teams and on occasion even provided logistical
facilities for them".

These officials claim that the recent decision by the US
Aviation Authority to ban extra flights into the US by
Indian carriers was "directly linked to US displeasure
over the strong Indian response to the Devyani Khobragade
episode, especially as they had been privately assured by
senior officials that the fallout of an arrest would be
routine and perfunctory".

Another example of misuse of public interest bodies cited
was the recent decision by the UK Automobile Safety
Authority to classify five India-produced small car
models as unsafe, "or exactly the same models that are
offering competition to European and US vehicles in the
European market". They said that such steps were
"protectionism in the guise of safety" and that "the
Manmohan Singh government's passivity in responding to
such unilateral measures encouraged more of them to get
slapped on India".

Coming back to the BJP's PM candidate Narendra Modi,
these sources say that the Obama administration has
dialled back on the hectic efforts by Hillary Clinton to
paint the Gujarat CM as guilty of mass murder and even
genocide. "This is clear from the latest report of the US
Commission on International Religious Freedom, which has
sharply scaled back its criticism of the Modi government
as compared to earlier reports". According to a senior
official, "President Obama does not share Hillary
Clinton's confrontational approach and her preference for
Sonia Gandhi, and is looking to establish a pragmatic
partnership with India should Modi become the Prime
Minister". Hence the search "for a US envoy who would be
different from (former ambassador) Nancy Powell's
Clinton-style hostile approach to Modi, and to find an
individual who could be expected to bond with the new PM
and his team". According to these sources, President
Obama "is alarmed at the steep downslide in India-US ties
caused by Hillary-style crusades, and wants the
relationship to be even better than what it was under the
Bush presidency".

Recent remarks by Narendra Modi indicate that the BJP's
standard bearer is ready to reciprocate the hand of amity
proffered by Team Obama to the BJP's PM nominee.

http://www.sunday-guardian.com/news/obama-quietly-reverses-hillarys-get-modi-policy

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