Jimmy Carter, the previous US President who died on the age of 100 on Sunday night time, shared a particular reference to India. A village in Haryana that he visited was named after him – ‘Carterpuri’.
On January 3, 1978, Mr Carter, together with the then First Woman Rosalynn Carter, travelled to Daulatpur Nasirabad – a village in Haryana which is an hour away from Delhi. Based on the Carter Heart, an NGO based by Mr Carter, the go to was so profitable that the residents renamed the realm ‘Carterpuri’ within the president’s honour. In addition they remained in touch with the White Home for the remainder of Mr Carter’s tenure.
January 3 was declared a vacation in ‘Carterpuri’ since then.
When Mr Carter gained the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002, the villagers held huge festivities and celebrated his honour.
The go to by the previous US President got here only a yr after the removing of the Emergency and the victory of the Janata Occasion. Throughout his time in India, he had additionally addressed parliament. Talking towards authoritarian rule on the time, Mr Carter stated, “For the rest of this century and into the following, the democratic nations of the world will more and more flip to one another for solutions to our most urgent, frequent problem: how our political and religious values can present the idea for coping with the social and financial strains to which they’ll unquestionably be subjected.”
Mr Carter additionally shared a private reference to India as his mom, Lillian, had labored within the nation as a well being volunteer with the Peace Corps throughout the late Nineteen Sixties.
Because the Carter administration, the US and India have labored intently on power, humanitarian help, know-how, area cooperation, maritime safety, catastrophe aid, and counterterrorism. Within the mid-2000s, the 2 nations struck a landmark settlement to work towards full civil nuclear cooperation, and bilateral commerce has since skyrocketed, the Carter Heart stated.
Jimmy Carter dies at 100
Jimmy Carter, the longest-lived US President and Nobel peace laureate, died on the age of 100. He had been in hospice care since mid-February 2023 at his residence in Plains, Georgia – the identical city the place he was born and as soon as ran a peanut farm earlier than turning into governor of the Peach State.
“Carter died peacefully at his residence in Plains surrounded by his household,” the Carter Heart wrote in an announcement.Â
Mr Carter’s son, Chip, informed information company AFP, “My father was a hero, not solely to me however to everybody who believes in peace, human rights and unselfish love.”
US President Joe Biden expressed grief over Mr Carter’s demise and declared January 9 because the nationwide mourning day.
“I name on the American individuals to assemble on that day of their respective locations of worship, there to pay homage to the reminiscence of President James Earl Carter, Jr. I invite the individuals of the world who share our grief to affix us on this solemn observance,” he stated.
