According to the Carter Centre, Jimmy Carter passed away quietly at his Plains, Georgia, home.
According to the Carter Centre, Jimmy Carter, the 39th US president and the third American leader to visit India, where a Haryana hamlet was named Carterpuri in his honour, passed away quietly at home in Plains, Georgia, surrounded by his loved ones.
According to the Carter Centre, Jimmy Carter, the 39th US president and the third American leader to visit India, where a Haryana hamlet was named Carterpuri in his honour, passed away quietly at home in Plains, Georgia, surrounded by his loved ones.
Carter, 100, passed away on Sunday. He was the US president with the longest tenure.
In a statement expressing his sorrow, President Joe Biden said, “Today, America and the world lost an extraordinary leader, statesman, and humanitarian.”
Carter’s children, Jack, Chip, Jeff, and Amy, as well as his eleven grandchildren and fourteen great-grandchildren, survive him. His wife, Rosalynn, and one grandchild predeceased him.
Not just to me, but to everyone who values human rights, peace, and selfless love, my father was a hero. These shared convictions allowed my sister, brothers, and I to share him with the rest of the world. Because of the way he united people, the globe is our family, and we are grateful that you are honouring his memory by upholding these common values,” Chip Carter said.
“With his compassion and moral clarity, Jimmy Carter worked for six decades to eradicate disease, forge peace, advance civil rights and human rights, bolster free and fair elections, house the homeless, and always advocate for the least among the people,” Biden said in his statement. People all throughout the world were saved, uplifted, and had their lives altered by him.
He was a brave, hopeful, and optimistic man with excellent character. The memories of him and Rosalynn together will last a lifetime. The epitome of partnership is the love that Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter share, and the epitome of patriotism is their modest leadership. Biden and First Lady Dr. Jill Biden stated, “We will miss them both very much, but find comfort in the knowledge that they are reunited once more and will always be in our hearts.”
Although he “strongly disagreed” with Carter “philosophically and politically,” President-elect Donald Trump claimed to have come to appreciate and love “our country, and all it stands for.”
“I have the utmost regard for him since he put up a lot of effort to improve America. Naturally, we shall miss him a much because he was a genuinely good man. After leaving the White House, he was also significantly more influential than other presidents, according to Trump.
Carter was regarded as India’s buddy. Following the lifting of the emergency and the Janata Party’s election in 1977, he became the first American president to travel to India. Jimmy Carter criticised authoritarian government in his speech to the Indian parliament.
“India’s challenges, which are common in the developing world and which we frequently encounter ourselves, serve as a reminder of the work that lies ahead. On January 2, 1978, Carter stated, “Not the Authoritarian Way.”
“But India’s achievements are equally significant because they firmly disprove the notion that a developing nation must embrace an authoritarian or totalitarian regime and all the harm that such a system of governance causes to the human spirit in order to make economic and social progress,” he told parliamentarians.
Is democracy a significant issue? Do all people appreciate human freedom?India responded with a resounding shout that could be heard all around the world. Not because any one party won or lost, but rather because the world’s greatest electorate freely and sensibly chose its leaders at the elections, I believe that something historic occurred here in March. Carter claimed that democracy itself had triumphed in this regard.
A day later, when he and then-prime minister Morarji Desai signed the Delhi statement, Carter stated that the core of India-US relationship is their shared belief that the moral principles of the populace must also direct the policies of the states and governments.
“With a new relationship between the state and its citizens, where the state exists to serve the citizens and not the citizens to serve the state, the United States gave the world an example of a new form of government,” he said.
“India experimented with creating political unity from overwhelming human diversity, enabling people of different cultures and languages and religions to work together, both in independence and also in freedom. Yours is an experiment whose success the world is celebrating anew,” Carter said in the Ashoka Hall of the Rashtrapati Bhawan.
Jimmy Carter and then First Lady Rosalynn Carter visited the village of Daulatpur Nasirabad, which is an hour southwest of New Delhi, on January 3, 1978, according to the Carter Centre. His mother, Lillian, had been in India as a Peace Corps health volunteer in the late 1960s, making him the first American president with a personal connection to the nation and the third to visit.
Villagers soon nicknamed the area ‘Carterpuri’ as a result of the visit’s success, and they maintained communication with the White House throughout President Carter’s administration. The Carter Centre stated that the visit created the foundation for a long-lasting partnership that has greatly benefited both nations. “Festivals erupted in the village when President Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002, and January 3 remains a holiday in Carterpuri,” the centre said.
President Carter recognised that a long and successful relationship between the United States and India was built on a solid foundation of shared democratic principles. Therefore, it concluded, it is not surprising that the two countries became closer during the decades following his departure.
The United States and India have really collaborated closely on a number of issues since the Carter administration, including energy, technology, humanitarian aid, space cooperation, maritime security, disaster relief, counterterrorism, and more. Bilateral trade has increased dramatically since the United States and India reached a historic agreement in the mid-2000s to strive towards complete civil nuclear cooperation, according to the centre.
“President Barack Obama referred to the inaugural US-India Strategic Dialogue as ‘an exceptional collaboration’ which was held in Washington, DC, in 2010. From the Jimmy Carter administration to the Biden administration, US-Indian cooperation has grown in both scope and depth. Successful cooperation has promoted interdependency between the two nations in a number of areas of shared interest, most notably commerce and defence, the statement stated.
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According to Paul Hastings law firm Partner and India Practice Leader Ronak D. Desai, Carter’s presidency was a turning point in US-Indian relations.
Jimmy Carter recognised the vital need of re-engaging with India as a democratic partner in a fast changing global system, following the strain produced by the Nixon administration’s notorious “tilt” towards Pakistan during the Indo-Pakistan War of 1971. According to him, his 1978 trip to India was more than just a token gesture; it was a serious attempt to restore confidence and create a foundation for communication based on respect and common principles.
“Carter’s contributions to US-India relations were transformative, even though his presidency was frequently seen through the prism of domestic issues,” Desai stated.
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