India must continue with its economic reform agenda or risk lose the credibility it has acquired in the world over the years, a top US administration official has said.
US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, who will lead a high-level delegation to India, also said that Washington was ready to partner New Delhi to push reforms forward.
"The United States will continue as a partner with India in its economic transformation... We will kick-off another session to help advance the Indian government's economic reform agenda when I am in New Delhi next week," he said in a speech at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington.
Paulson noted as in any other democratic set-up, India also faced political challenges and the US was aware of it.
"The government is to be applauded for what it has already