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Britain's decision to leave the European Union has provided India a chance to increase its trade with the United Kingdom (UK), India's outgoing High Commissioner to the country, Navtej Sarna, has said.
"There is a mind-shift in the UK government towards India and Britain's decision to part with the EU has provided India a chance to hike its trade with the UK," said Sarna, who is leaving for Washington as India's ambassador to the US, at London last night.
Terming Sarna's tenure at the UK High Commission as "short and sweet" , G P Hinduja, Co-Chairman of the Hinduja Group, said, "You have built such a bridge with the British government, its Prime Minister is visiting Delhi in November. You are a change-maker."
Lauding the Indian diplomat's achievements in bringing around the British Prime Minister, Theresa May, post-Brexit, Hinduja hoped that his upcoming Washington visit will also be a great success.
"You came and there was Brexit and you have changed the Prime Minister. You are going to Washington and you will change the President (there)," he said.
India needs investment and the US has liquidity, and Britain expertise, Hinduja said while asking Sarna to try to bring the United Sates America, UK and India "closer".
India should treat investments from Non-Resident Indians (NRI) at par with Indian investment, he said further during an event hosted by the NRI Platform and headed by Joginder Sanger.
The event was attended by eminent personalities including Lord Khalid Hameed, Lord Meghnad Desai, Lord Raj Loomba, Lord Suri and Kartar Lalvani, apart from some of the leading NRIs in the country.
The UK chose to leave the 28-nation European Union 43 years in a historic referendum held on June 23 after an acrimonious campaign that saw the island-country divided between 'stay' and 'leave' groups.
