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US Principal Deputy NSA Jonathan Finer conveyed to New Delhi the importance of holding accountable anyone found responsible in the probe announced by India to investigate an alleged Indian link to a foiled plot to kill a Sikh separatist on American soil.

As Finer wrapped up his high-profile visit to India, the White House said Finer “acknowledged” India’s establishment of a committee of enquiry to investigate the “lethal plotting” and underlined the need for holding accountable those responsible.

“Finer acknowledged India’s establishment of a committee of enquiry to investigate lethal plotting in the United States and the importance of holding accountable anyone found responsible,” it said in a readout while referring to his meetings in the national capital.

The readout did not mention with which Indian officials the principal deputy NSA raised the issue.

Finer also discussed with his Indian interlocutors the plans for a post-conflict Gaza and a “pathway toward a two-state solution”, it said.

The senior White House official met External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, NSA Ajit Doval, Foreign Secretary Vinay Kwatra and held extensive talks with Deputy NSA Vikram Misri.

Finer led a US delegation for an intersessional review of the US-India Initiative on Critical and Emerging Technology (iCET) with Misri. The two sides carried out the review on Monday.

His visit to New Delhi came days after American prosecutors linked an Indian official to a man charged with conspiring to assassinate Sikh separatist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun.

India on Thursday described as a “matter of concern” the US linking the Indian official to a man charged with conspiring to kill Pannun, and asserted that follow up action will be taken based on findings of an inquiry panel investigating the allegations.

India has already constituted a probe team to investigate the allegations.

Last week, the US federal prosecutors charged Nikhil Gupta, 52, of working with an Indian government employee in the conspiracy to kill Pannun.

The US readout said besides review of the iCET, Finer conducted bilateral and regional consultations with Misri, Minister Jaishankar, NSA Doval, and Foreign Secretary Kwatra for in-depth discussions aimed at strengthening “coordination and policy alignment” across the Indo-Pacific, including the wider Indian Ocean region.

“They discussed the Middle East, including the recent attacks on commercial vessels in the Red Sea and the importance of safeguarding freedom of commercial navigation, as well as plans for a post-conflict Gaza and a pathway toward a two-state solution,” it said.

India has also been pushing for a ‘two-state’ solution to the Palestine issue.

In an address at a conclave last night, Finer said the US and India have established a mature relationship that enables both sides to identify opportunities and work through the differences.

He said the US and India have a “complicated history” and they have not always been “wholly aligned”.

Finer said there are many “difficult issues” that remained in the relationship “right up to the present day”.

At the same time, he said there is a bipartisan view in the US that both countries must seize some important opportunities that the world presents to the two sides both geopolitically and economically.

“I think the US and India have a complicated history. We have not always been wholly aligned. We have not always found it easy to work together as economic partners; we have not always found it easy to be on the same side on issues geopolitically,” he said.

“I think in some ways the most important step forward for the US and India is recognising on each side that there is much more that connects us than divides us,” he said.

The Biden Administration official said it is not that both sides will agree on everything and that there are many “difficult issues” that remained in the relationship “right up to the present day”.

However, he did not elaborate on the difficult issues.

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The BJP will choose its Chief Ministers for three heartland states — Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh — with an eye on the 2024 Lok Sabha election, party sources have said, adding that new faces may be chosen in all three states.

The BJP won the Assembly polls in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh, results of which were declared on Sunday. The party’s central leadership has been holding discussions on the Chief Minister probables in the three states.

A four-and-a-half hour meeting was held at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s residence yesterday, during which the frontrunners in the three states were considered. The meeting was attended by the Prime Minister, Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP chief JP Nadda.

This marathon meeting followed a series of meetings held by Mr Shah and Mr Nadda with the BJP’s in-charges of these states to gather feedback about state leaders.

The BJP’s central leadership is likely to appoint observers for the three states soon. These observers will oversee meetings of newly elected MLAs in the three states to elect their leaders in the Assembly.

In Madhya Pradesh, incumbent Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan is a contender for the top post, along with Union ministers Prahlad Patel, Jyotiraditya Scindia and Narendra Singh Tomar, and senior state leader Kailash Vijayvargiya.

Several names are doing the rounds for the Rajasthan top post too. While former Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje has been elected as an MLA, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, Union Ministers Gajendra Singh Shekhawat and Arjun Ram Meghwal, state party president C P Joshi, and prominent leaders Diya Kumari and Mahant Balaknath are being seen as probables.

Former Chief Minister Raman Singh is among the contenders in Chhattisgarh. State BJP president Arun Kumar Sao, leader of opposition Dharamlal Kaushik and former IAS officer O P Chaudhary are also being seen as contenders for the Chief Minister post.

It must, however, be kept in mind that the BJP leadership is known to spring a surprise with its choices.