Bipartisan consensus in invite to PM Modi to address US Congress
Hindustan TimesFaced with the prospect of calamitous government default, US President Joe Biden had to call off his visit to Papua New Guinea and Australia last month and returned back from G-7 meeting in Tokyo to forge a bipartisan consensus on debt ceiling legislation. File Photo of PM Narendra Modi addressing the joint meeting of US Congress in 2016 While the Democrats and Republicans sledged it out over the debt ceiling for the past months, the two political rivals got together on the same day to send a bipartisan invite to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to address the joint meeting of Congress on June 22. Sending the invite, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy wrote that the bipartisan leadership was looking forward to “paving the way for greater collaboration between the two countries for years to come.” Prime Minister Narendra Modi is going on a state visit to the US on June 20 and will address the joint meeting of Congress on June 22 after attending the function to celebrate Yoga Day 2023 at the UN the day before. While Modi’s political adversaries may play down the importance of the forthcoming state visit, he will be the first Indian PM to address the Congress twice within a span of seven years.