Prime Minister Narendra Modi will host a dinner for U.S. Vice President JD Vance and India-former Second Lady Usha on Monday night, following talks with U.S. leaders on a range of key issues, including trade, tariffs, regional security and approaches to expand bilateral bilateral participation. Four days of visit to India.
Vance’s first visit to India came weeks after U.S. President Donald Trump then suspended tariff regimes on about 60 countries, including India. New Delhi and Washington are now in talks to seal the bilateral trade agreement, which is expected to address various issues, including tariffs and market access.
Hours after arriving in Delhi, Vance and his family plan to visit the Swaminarayan Akshardham temple and could visit a shopping group that sells traditional Indian handmade products and tells PTI. Vances will be welcomed by senior union cabinet ministers to arrive at Palam Air Force Base.
In addition to Delhi, Vance and his family will travel to Jaipur and Agra. People familiar with the matter say Vance is expected to be accompanied by at least five senior officials, including the Pentagon and the State Department.
Prime Minister Modi will welcome Vance and his family on his seven Lok Kalyan Marg Residences on Monday at 6:30 pm before formal talks. The above-mentioned figure said the focus of the meeting could be on the early finalization of proposed bilateral trade agreements and the approach to promoting the overall trajectory of the links between the two countries.
They said Foreign Minister S Jaishankar, NSA Ajit Doval, Foreign Minister Vikram Misri and Indian ambassadors to the U.S. to Vinay Mohan Kwatra are expected to be part of an Indian team led by PM Modi.
After the talks, Modi will preside over the dinner with the accompanying U.S. officials. People quoted above said Vance and his family will travel to Jaipur on Monday night. In Delhi, the U.S. Vice President and his family will stay at the ITC Maurya Sheraton Hotel.
On April 22, Vances will visit many historic sites, including Amer Fort, also known as Amber Fort. The fortress is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. They said that in the afternoon, the U.S. Vice President plans to hold a party at the International Centre in Rajasthan, Jaipur.
Vance is expected to delve into the broader aspects of India-U.S. relations during the speech of the Donald Trump administration, with diplomats, foreign policy experts, Indian government officials and academia expected to participate.
The above-mentioned person said that the U.S. Vice President and his family are expected to travel to Agra on the morning of April 23. They said that in Agra they will visit the Taj Mahal and Shilpgram, an open-air mall that displays a variety of Indian handicrafts. Vances will return to Jaipur in the second half of April 23 after the end of his visit to Agra.
According to the above figure, the U.S. Vice President and his family will set out from Jaipur on April 24. In Jaipur, Vances will remain at the elegant Rambagh Palace, a luxury hotel once a royal hotel. Vance is about to arrive in Delhi after finishing his trip to Italy.
