Biden not coming for Republic Day, Quad to be remitted US Ambassador had verified India’s invite; new peak dates being worked out US President Joe Biden isn’t coming to India for the Republic Day cortege in January 2024 and the Quad peak, proposed to be held around that time, is being laid over to the ultimate part of 2024, sources said Tuesday.
India had invited President Biden for the Republic Day fests as part of its plans to host the quadrangle leaders ’ peak in January coming time. Apropos, on September 20, US Ambassador Eric Garcetti had verified that President Joe Biden had been invited by Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the Republic Day fests. During an commerce organised by the Ananta Centre, Garcetti, responding to a question on the quadrangle leaders being invited to the Republic Day fests, had said that the assignation
A final call, sources had said, would be taken only after catching on the vacuity of the leaders – President Biden, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Japan Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. With Albanese busy with Australian public day on January 26, the foremost he could have come to India would have been January 27. And with the Japanese congress, the Diet, in session at that time, Kishida would have also had to take leave of the House to come for the Quad peak.
But all was dependent on the US President’s schedule, which was awaited by the remaining three sides, so that the Quad peak could have taken place on January 27, a day after the Republic Day fests on January 26. An assignation to be the Republic Day Chief Guest is largely emblematic from the Indian government’s perspective. A formal assignation is generally transferred only after catching on informally the vacuity of the leaders.
Biden’s attainability for the Republic Day and the holdback of the Quad peak comes when the US is presently probing an alleged assassination plot of a Khalistan rebel on US soil. Since an Indian functionary is allegedly involved in planning the plot, the Indian government is also probing inputs participated by US agencies. The US civil prosecutors filed an charge in November detailing the contended plot against the rebel, who holds binary nation of US and Canada.
This is the alternate time that the US President has not been suitable to come for the Republic Day fests. Former US President Donald Trump had been invited in 2018 to attend the January 2019 Republic Day fests but he, too, couldn’t make it.
So far, only formerly has the US President come for the Republic Day fests — in January 2015 when also US President Barack Obama had come in the first time of the Modi government. Now, all eyes will be on South Block to find a new guest for the Republic Day fests.
officers from both Indian and the US sides say that the attainability of the US President shouldn’t be seen as any shadow on the ties in the wake of the Pannun assassination plot. officers said that the two sides have deep stakes and vital interests at stake, and the Quad grouping will surely meet towards the end of the time — after the choices are over and before the US choices cycle takes over.
While the US- China engagement has been underway, with Biden meeting Chinese President Xi Jinping lately in California, officers say that the commitment to the Quad grouping remains, and a peak — indeed at a after date — will be a strong signal to China whose aggressive geste
