Briefing the media after the meeting, chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala asserted that party president Rahul Gandhi would continue to lead the party. I am in an entirely different frame of mind after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s emphatic victory in India’s 2019 midsummer election. This deepens when I observe Mr. Modi’s choices for India’s Home Minister and for the Minister for Human Resource Development. The U.S.’s top South Asia diplomat, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asia, Alice Wells, will testify on Thursday before the House Foreign Affairs Committee (HFAC) in a hearing on ‘U.S. Interest in South Asia and FY 2020 Budget’.

Source: The Hindu June 13, 2019 02:48 UTC