India, Sept. 4 -- President Donald Trump's policy on India has backfired, amid rising concern in Washington that India is growing closer to China and Russia, Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove has said. In an interview with HT, the lawmaker, the senior-most Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee's South and Central Asia subcommittee, which deals with India, also castigated the majority Republican Party for its silence on the growing US-India crisis. Edited excerpts:

Congresswoman Kamlager-Dove, you were one of the first representatives in Congress to speak about the sharp deterioration in the India-US relationship. Why did you choose to do that? And what do you think about where we are right now in our relationship?

I represent...