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New Delhi: The US State Department spokesperson said on Wednesday that senior diplomat Donald Lu’s meeting with Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was part of a normal diplomatic conversation.
According to news agency ANI, the spokesperson of US Department said that policy has been to talk to the government of allied countries as well as opposition leaders and people with social connections. He said that he could not comment further on this private conversation.
Rahul met Lu on Monday. He is the Assistant Secretary of State for the South and Middle Asia Bureau of the US State Department. Lu is coming on a tour of India and Bangladesh this week. Donald Lu will first come to New Delhi. Here he will attend a business summit from where he will leave for Bangladesh.
After this, Lu will participate in the eighth two plus two ministerial meeting between India and the US. Then he will go on a tour of Bangladesh where he will meet the leaders of the interim government. He also visited Bangladesh in May this year.
Donald Lu’s name is seen in connection with coups in South Asian countries. His name also came up after the fall of Imran Khan’s government in Pakistan. Imran Khan had openly named him and held him responsible for coup in Pakistan.
Earlier this year, Lu testified in the US Parliament and denied the allegations of toppling the government in Pakistan. Last month, when Sheikh Hasina was removed from power in Bangladesh, Donald Lu’s name also came up. However, the US flatly denied this claim.
