By Sushil Kutty Why did the $21 million USAID largesse fail to bring about the desired regime-change in India, replace Prime Minister Narendra Modi and seat in his place a more acceptable face? This should be US President Donald Trump’s query because the dollars belonged to Americans and President Trump and DOGE’s presumptuous head Elon Musk have to trace and return to the American people their hard-earned dollars.

Indian authorities are looking into "deeply troubling" information about U.S. governmental activity in the country, New Delhi said on Friday, after President Donald Trump suggested that a U.S. government agency had spent money trying to influence Indian elections.

Days after the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) announced on February 16 that it had “cancelled” USAID funding of “$21 million for voter turnout in India”, the Ministry of External Affairs Friday described it as “very deeply troubling”,