Here are the excerpts from the interview:

You have said that the US government has allocated Covid vaccines to India after the meeting between US President Joe Biden and Reverend Jackson. Please elaborate. Yes, it was a historic meeting Reverend Jackson had with Biden at Tulsa, Oklahoma, on June 1, which helped my motherland, India, to receive Covid vaccine jabs.

Jackson has been relentlessly pursuing with the US administration and the world at large to aid India at this unprecedented crisis. President Biden then made a commitment to connect the White House staff with the Reverend to ensure efficiency in communication and distribution of the US donated vaccines to India. I myself had briefed the President about how Congressman Danny Davis had on May 2 kick-started the coming together of Indian American and mainstream community leaders that triggered Jackson’s initiative to highlight the urgent need to help India combat the second Covid wave, by hosting press meets in Chicago, Washington DC and Atlanta.

This meeting had led to the announcement by Vice President Kamala Harris and her call to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. President Biden listened carefully and responded most expressively to all our requests and we see this as a huge positive step in India-US relations. We have a responsive President in Biden who is ready to rise to the occasion and acts swiftly to immediately resolve the situation with his admirable leadership.