Nancy Powell resigns

US ambassador to India Nancy Powell has resigned on Monday.

US embassy statement issued a statement on Ms Powell’s resignation.

“US Ambassador to India Nancy J Powell announced in a US Mission Town Hall meeting March 31 that she has submitted her resignation to President Obama and, as planned for some time, will retire to her home in Delaware before the end of May,” an announcement in the US Embassy website said.

Although the US embassy has not given any specific reason for Nancy Powell’s resignation, but it has been speculated that Obama administration felt Powell, being a vocal advocate of UPA’s foreign policy, has to be replaced with someone who can deliver a better balancing act as BJP’s Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi emerges a frontrunner to rule the biggest democracy of the world.

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