Washington/New Delhi: The US has said there is no change in its policy
to deny visa to Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi. “Our position
on the visa issue hasn’t changed at all,” State Department spokesperson
Victoria Nuland told reporters at her daily news conference on
Wednesday. Nuland was responding to questions on the letter written
by Congressman Joe Walsh to secretary of state Hillary Clinton, that
the US government reverse its 2005 decision not to issue US visa to
Modi. The letter by Walsh was written a fortnight ago. “If we do
respond, it’ll be along familiar lines,” Nuland said. The Indian
American Muslim community demanded the State Department should not
change its 2005 policy on Modi’s visa. Law minister Salman Khurshid
said it was a matter of concern that a question mark hung over someone
who was heading a leading state in the country. “I am sure that
they (US) look at everything they want to look at...Not for us to
comment on US policy but it is a matter of serious concern that there is
this kind of serious question mark on the personality of somebody who
leads a major state in our country,” Khurshid told reporters in Delhi.
PTI
