Obama first US president to attend India National Day parade
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2015-01-26
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India’s annual National Day parade has been attended by an American president for the first time.
Barack Obama was guest of honour among the thousands who braved pouring rain in Delhi to witness the flamboyant display of the South Asian nation’s military strength and cultural diversity.
The holiday celebrates the adoption of India’s first constitution on 26 January, 1950 – two and a half after India won independence from British rule.
Obama’s highly symbolic visit and warm welcome the US president received from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi reflects the rapidly warming relations between the two countries.
Only just over a year ago, at the end of 2013, there was tension between Delhi and Washington when an Indian diplomat was arrested in New York.
For a whole decade the US had no relations with Modi who was even refused a US visa in 2005 following bloody anti-Muslim rioting three years earlier in the state of Gujarat, where the Hindu nationalist was Chief Minister.
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Barack Obama was guest of honour among the thousands who braved pouring rain in Delhi to witness the flamboyant display of the South Asian nation’s military strength and cultural diversity.
The holiday celebrates the adoption of India’s first constitution on 26 January, 1950 – two and a half after India won independence from British rule.
Obama’s highly symbolic visit and warm welcome the US president received from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi reflects the rapidly warming relations between the two countries.
Only just over a year ago, at the end of 2013, there was tension between Delhi and Washington when an Indian diplomat was arrested in New York.
For a whole decade the US had no relations with Modi who was even refused a US visa in 2005 following bloody anti-Muslim rioting three years earlier in the state of Gujarat, where the Hindu nationalist was Chief Minister.
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