WASHINGTON, D.C.: A politician close to India’s incoming prime minister Narendra Modi called on Thursday (Friday in Manila) for strong relations with the United States, after spe–culation he could bear a grudge over past treatment.

Sudhanshu Trivedi, national spokesperson for Modi’s Bha–ratiya Janata Party that won a resounding victory in recent elections, said there had also been “many apprehensions” about the Hindu nationalist BJP before it last took power in 1998.

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