Ahead Of New Delhi Visit, Kerry To Deliver Major Policy Speech On India

"Obviously, this is a fascinating time in Asia and India's relationship with powers in the region will be interesting. But what's also happening at the state and regional issue in terms of economic growth, trade, attitudes regarding India's role is critically important," she said.

"As we look out at the rest of the 21st century, we believe India and the United States have mutual interests around the world. And we hope that India 2020 will help shape American understanding of India's role," Tanden said.

Last week, Singh told lawmakers during a Congressional hearing that India and US have the potential in the next few years to really move to another level in this relationship.

"We are launching a project called India 2020 which is going to look specifically at what can we do, what we can achieve in five years because we think this is a particularly good moment to look at that," Singh said.

"Prime Minister Modi ran on a campaign of what he called 'Surajya', which means, in Hindi, good governance. He said, I'm going to deliver good governance; I'm going to deliver it to all classes, castes and communities. That's the promise that he's going to be measured by. That's the promise that we should welcome and we should sort of measure him by ourselves," he said.

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