What is the Impact of US presidential Elections in India ?
The impact of US elections in India is huge as both are one of the largest democracies in the world. US elections are held in every 4 year's and Indian Elections are held in every 5 years.
USA is one of the oldest democracies in the world and its elections have a major impact on the world and especially on India and China (the two major rising superpowers). The impact of US elections in India also decides the bond and mutual agreements between the countries.
There are various parties in the United States which compete to form the government but "The Democratic Party" and "The Republican Party" are the most powerful. The other parties, such as the Reform, Libertarian, Socialist, Natural Law, Constitution, and Green Parties can also participate in a presidential elections.
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Let's see some basic history of the major parties of United States.
1. The Republican Party
2. The Democratic Party
The Republican Party
1. Abraham Lincoln and his party in the 1860s fought American civil war and brought the slavery to an end. They finally ended the big American civil war just like an "giant elephant" who can tackle with big things that is the reason they have an "elephant" as their symbol .
2. Their major political colour is "Red"
3. One of the most famous and loved leaders where the "Abraham Lincoln" who fought against the "racism" and the "slavery" and promoted democracy by quoting his famous lines "Democracy is a rule of the people, for the people and by the people".
4.They generally favor the Jews and the Christians (basically the "rich" and "white people")
5. They have the policy to collect less tax from the people and give more government allowances to them.
6. They prefer and promote the gun culture in USA saying that every citizen has the right to "self defense".
7. They generally don't prefer the immigrants so they tend to decrease the issuance of H1B visa (It is required by the immigrants to get the job as doctors, engineers or any other in USA). they have a slogan favoring American people quoting
"US First".
8. The present leader of the Republican party is "Donald Trump"
9. They don't generally give any value to the environmental issues and the global warming factors.
The Democratic Party
1. There party symbol is of "a donkey". there's an interesting story behind the symbol, earlier people use to mock the democratic party members saying that they are donkey so they used the donkey as their symbol and indirectly used the criticism as a "promotional tactic".
2. Their major political colour is "blue"
3. It was founded in 1828 by supporters of Andrew Jackson, making it the world's oldest active political party.
4. They generally favor the Muslims and the African Americans, and middle class people.
5. They are in the favor of more tax and less government allowances.
6. They oppose the gun culture of USA.
7. They prefer the immigrants and don't oppose any VISA rules saying that if people will come more from other countries, a healthy competition will be there in the country.
8. Their present leader is "Joe Biden".
9. They prefer to give importance to the environmental issues and the global warming factors saying that environment is very necessary for our future and we should conserve it.
How India is affected by US Presidential Elections ?
Here we will see which party favors the Indians :-
let's take an example of the Republican rule in USA from 2016 to 2020 by the Donald Trump and analyse it.
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY RELATION WITH INDIA
1. They were in the support of Indians as we have seen during the Trump rule , Mr. Donald Trump invited India's prime minister Mr. Narendra Modi in a special event dedicated to him known as "howdy Modi". In the same manner he was also welcomed in India in a special event by the prime minister of India Mr. Narendra Modi in dedicated to him known as "Namaste Trump".
2. he decreased the aid given to Pakistan by half , saying the truth that Pakistan uses the money to promote terrorism in India through the Kashmir valley from the illegally occupied Kashmir (POK).
3. he signed major defense pacts with India such as "LEMOA" , "COMCASA" and "BECA"during his rule .
4. He was very anti-china and in fact he started the trade war between the US and the China. it was beneficial for India because China is a political rival of India and putting restrictions on China meant profits for India Indirectly. Trump declared that the United States would impose a 25% tariff on $50 billion of Chinese exports. $34 billion would start July 6, 2018, with a further $16 billion to begin at a later date. He said his planned tariffs on Chinese imports would make the United States "a much stronger, much richer nation".
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY RELATION WITH INDIA
1. They gave aid to Pakistan to fight the so called "terrorism" despite knowing that it is the most peaceful country for the terrorist to reside in the world.
2. They had a Pro- China policy. it has been alleged by the Republican Party leader "Donald Trump" that the son of Joe Biden ( the leader of the democratic party) has invested over 1.5 billion USD in China in 2013 and China has declared him as "sinecure" , which means he was getting millions of profits by sitting in the US from China in his pockets and that is why Joe Biden has a pro-China policy favoring china.
3. He was also against India as he had lectured India on CAA NRC, Removal of Article 370 and many more. he kept chattering in the favors of Muslims just to get votes from them.
4. However , Fun fact is Indian Americans had always voted for democrat's before but due to china factor , India has shifted it's view's for the first time !
AFTER THE 2020 ELECTIONS RESULTS
The Republican Party headed by Mr. Donald Trump lost the elections. The new leader was from the democratic party Mr. Joe Biden who became the President of USA.
The reasons with which the republicans lost the elections where :-
1. They manhandled corona which resulted USA being the worst hit country by the covid pandemic in the world.
2. They generally favored whites and during the George Floyd case, the racism violence erupted and there was a huge protests in the United States because of the man handling of the situation by the Donald Trump.
3. There was very much of violence during the Donald Trump rule and one of the major where the "violence in the capital hill".
4. As people became very angry during the George Floyd case, they supported Mr. Joe Biden who favored the blacks and by this much agitation against Mr. Donald Trump, he was finally thrown out of the power and The democrat's finally won the election.