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NEW DELHI: US President Donald Trump will discuss issues related to religious freedom during his official visit to India, said a White House official.
While responding to a query on CAA and NRC during a conference, a White House official said, “President Trump will talk about our shared tradition of democracy and religious freedom both in his public remarks and then certainly in private. He will raise these issues, particularly the religious freedom issue, which is extremely important to this administration.”
"We do have this shared commitment to upholding our universal values, the rule of law. We have great respect for India's democratic traditions and institutions, and we will continue to encourage India to uphold those traditions. And we are concerned with some of the issues that you have raised," the senior administration official said.
He informed that the world is looking to India to respect rights of religious minorities and uphold its democratic traditions.
The US President Donald Trump scheduled to come to India for a two-day official visit on February 24, a lot of experts are trying to anticipate what the visit will mean for India.
Trump had said that he was interested in doing a big trade deal with India but he wasn’t sure if the deal could be done before the elections.
Ahead of US President Donald Trump’s visit, Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) has served notices to families living in a slum area close to the newly-built Sardar Patel Stadium in Motera area.
Slum-dwellers and activists have questioned the timing of the decision as it is just ahead of the visit of US president.
The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) has also started building a 600-metre wall to obscure the Saraniyavas or Dev Saran slum which might fall on the route of the US President.