The US is looking forward to work with President Ram Nath Kovind on regional and global issues. State Department Spokesperson, Heather Nauert said that they want to congratulate the President-elect Ramnath Kovind on his victory and want to work with him in future.
Nauert credited the close people-to-people contact between the world’s two largest democracies with the type of partnership they share. “That partnership is obviously underpinned by our very close people-to-people contact with the Indian government and our shared democratic values and India and the US have a deep and growing strategic partnership,” said Nauert.
Kovind garnered 65.65 per cent of the votes in the electoral college against the BJP’s projected 70 per cent vote for him.
Kovind, a low-key lawyer-turned-politician, was yesterday elected as India’s 14th President, the first BJP member and the second Dalit to occupy the country’s highest office.