‘Deeply troubling’: MEA raises concerns over ‘foreign interference’ amid USAID row

Days after the USAID cancelled the funding of $21 million greenback for voter turnout in India, the Ministry of Exterior Affairs on Friday raised concerns concerning the alleged “international interference” within the nation’s inside affairs, calling it “deeply troubling”.

This comes after the Donald Trump administration’s Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE) introduced February 16 that it had “cancelled,” amongst a string of initiatives, the USAID funding to India.

Following this, the ruling BJP accused the opposition Congress of utilizing alleged exterior affect in India’s election course of. Trump, too, questioned the funding, asking, “Why do we have to spend $21m for voter turnout in India? Wow, $21m! I suppose they had been making an attempt to get any person else elected.”