United States President Joe Biden could go to India twice earlier than looking for a second time period within the White House in November 2024 elections.

Biden is predicted to go to New Delhi to attend the G20 Summit, which Prime Minister Narendra Modi will host on September 9 and 10. This goes to be his first go to to India after taking on because the US president in January 2021. The risk of his second go to to India emerged on Saturday when he and Modi joined Prime Minister Fumio Kishida of Japan and Anthony Albanese of Australia for a gathering of the Quad on the sideline of the G7 Summit at Hiroshima in Japan.

The subsequent in-person summit of the Quad will likely be hosted by India in 2024, based on a joint assertion issued by the 4 leaders after the assembly on Saturday.

Barack Obama was the primary US President to go to India twice – first in November 2010 throughout his first time period within the White House after which in January 2015 throughout his second time period.

If Biden travels to India for the G20 Summit this 12 months and the Quad Summit subsequent 12 months, he would be the first US President to go to the South Asian nation twice throughout his first time period within the White House itself.

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Biden’s predecessor Donald Trump had visited Ahmedabad and New Delhi in February 2020.

The Quad leaders on Saturday solely agreed to carry the subsequent 12 months’s in-person summit in India however didn’t set a selected date for it. Sources in New Delhi, nevertheless, stated that it’d occur earlier than the subsequent Lok Sabha elections, which might happen in April-May 2024, or instantly after that, in fact earlier than the US president must begin campaigning looking for re-election. The subsequent US presidential polls will happen on November 5, 2024.

Modi will journey to Washington D.C. on June 22 for an official state go to on an invite prolonged by Biden. His first go to to Washington DC after Biden took over because the US president was in September 2021, when he had attended the primary in-person summit of the Quad within the White House.

The Quad is a coalition of India, Australia, Japan and the US. The four-nation coalition was launched in 2007 and revived in 2017 to counter China’s expansionist strikes within the Indo-Pacific. It was elevated to the extent of the leaders in April 2021, when the leaders of the 4 nations had held a digital assembly. They later had summits in Washington DC in September 2021 and in Tokyo in May 2022.

Though the leaders had been anticipated to carry this 12 months’s summit at Sydney on May 23, it was shifted to Hiroshima and superior to Saturday as Biden cancelled his go to to Australia and determined to return to Washington DC after attending the G7 summit in Japan to be able to proceed talks with the US Congress leaders to avert looming debt-default.