In the first response on the US midterm elections in which Democrats won both Houses of the US Congress, defeating US President Donald Trump’s Republican Party, India said on Tuesday that it is an “internal matter” of the US but underlined that the India-US bilateral ties enjoy “strong bipartisan support” across the political aisle.

External Affairs Ministry’s official spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal, while responding to questions, said: “The midterm elections are an internal matter of the US. I have no specific comment on them, beyond underlining that the India-United States relationship enjoys strong bipartisan support in the US.…