Ever since India’s defiance of the Western pressure to sever trade ties with Russia in the wake of Russia’s launch of the special military operation in Ukraine in Feb 2022, the West has been incrementally ratcheting up its rhetoric against India, specifically targeting the BJP-led government. This is a stark reversal of the kind of treatment India received from the West earlier when the latter viewed India as a strategic partner in the much-touted strategy of the West's pivot to Asia to check the growing global influence of China and serve as a counterbalance to it. 

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