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There Are Some Things A Hug Can Buy: Rahul Gandhi's US Visa Jibe At PM Modi

Darpan News Desk IANS, 26 Apr, 2018 11:54 AM
    Congress President Rahul Gandhi today described the proposed US visa rules as a "huge setback" for India, and in a jibe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi said there were "some things a hug can buy", but for visas "you're on your own".
     
     
    Mr Gandhi's remarks come amid Trump administration's plan to propose to end giving work permits to the spouses of H1-B visa holders to work in the US, a move that could have a devastating impact on tens of thousands of Indians.
     
     
    "New US Visa Rules, huge setback for India...," the Congress president said on Twitter.
     
     
    "There are some things a hug can buy. For visas, you're on your own," he said in a word play on the MasterCard ad campaign which says, "There are some things money can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard".
     
     
    "Foreign Policy by Narendra Modi, Foreword by Donald Trump," Mr Gandhi said mocking the government's diplomacy.
     
     
    Mr Gandhi has earlier also attacked the Prime Minister over what he termed 'hugplomacy' after Pakistan released 2008 Mumbai attacks mastermind and Lashkar-e-Taiba chief Hafiz Saeed from house arrest.
     
     
    The Trump administration's move to end the Obama-era rule could have an impact on more than 70,000 H-4 visas holders, who have work permits.
     
     
    H-4 is issued to the spouse of H-1B visa holders, a significantly large number of whom are high-skilled professionals from India. They had obtained work permits under a special order issued by the previous Obama administration.

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