Biden to Skip India Celebrations After Murder Plot Claim

US President Joe Biden is set to pull out of India’s Republic Day celebrations, as the fallout from an alleged plot to assassinate a Sikh separatist leader on American soil continues to sour relations, Yahoo News reported.

Biden was expected to be the chief guest at the January 26 event but a US Justice Department claim last month that it had thwarted a plot to kill Sikh separatist leader Gurpatwant Singh Pannun on American soil, and suspected that the Indian government may have had knowledge of the plot, has raised tensions between the two nations.

Citing a report in the UK’s Independent, the story said a National Security Council spokesperson said neither he nor the administration had “any travel announcements to preview at this time”.

Read the full story: Yahoo News

By Sean O’Meara

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Sean O'Meara

Sean O'Meara is an Editor at Asia Financial. He has been a newspaper man for more than 30 years, working at local, regional and national titles in the UK as a writer, sub-editor, page designer and print editor. A football, cricket and rugby fan, he has a particular interest in sports finance.