PM Modi-Jaganmohan reddy meeting fuels speculation

Prime Minister Narendra Modi-YSR Congress president Jaganmohan reddy meeting 

         After having refused an appointment barely a month-and-half ago to YSR Congress president Jaganmohan Reddy and his MPs, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday meet with the delegation for twenty minutes. Later, Modi and Jagan had a one-on-one that lasted for about 10 minutes.

        But sources in the YSR Congress claimed that the BJP was unhappy with the TDP and is warming up to them. In fact, on February 17, Jagan had led a team of his party MPs to Delhi to meet Modi, but the PM did not grant him an audience and the YSR Congress leader had to return after meeting Jaitley and Union home minister Rajnath Singh.

CEREMONIAL RECEPTION IN COLOMBO

       
       Bilateral relations under the regime of Mahinda Rajapaksa had a pronounced chill as both sides differed strongly on rehabilitating minority Tamils and restoring their political rights.

       One was to indicate that India will hereon take its responsibilities as a significant maritime power seriously, particularly since China is making known its ambitions plainly. Second was to repair frayed ties with Colombo and, third, to gesture to Sri Lankan Tamils that India was not about to let up on lobbying for their rights.

       India was the first port of call for Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Narendra Modi was received at the airport in the wee hours of the morning by Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe during a visit marked by customary fanfare.

Mr. Narendra Modi’s visit, also to the island nations of Seychelles and Mauritius, arguably had three objectives.