washington democratic presumptive presidential nominee joe biden if elected to power in the november elections will help shape international bodies like the united nations so that india get a permanent seat on the security council a former top american diplomat has saidindia has been pushing for reforms of the united nations including the security council stating that its composition doesnt reflect the current realities and is not representative enoughthe unsc has 15 members including five permanent members the us the uk france russia and china china is the only permanent member of the unsc which is opposed to indias inclusion into the powerful grouping half of the 10 nonpermanent members are elected every year for a twoyear term india along with mexico and ireland has been recently elected a nonpermanent member for a twoyear term starting january 1 2021theres no question that under his biden leadership he would help shape international institutions like the un to give india a permanent seat on the security council he would fulfil its india status as a major defence partner former us ambassador to india richard verma said on saturdayhe biden would work together with india to keep our citizens collectively safe that means standing up against crossborder terrorism and standing with india when its neighbours attempt to change the status quo he addedverma an indianamerican who was us ambassador to india from 2014 to 2017 joined three other prominent indianamericans to make a strong pitch for the small but highly influential community to support and vote for biden in the us presidential electionsthe 77yearold former us vice president is set to be formally nominated by the democratic party in august he will challenge 74yearold incumbent president donald trump a republican in the november 3 presidential electionsverma biden unity task force economic policy advisor sonal shah former us surgeon general vivek murthy and centre for american progress action fund ceo neera tanden in their address to a virtual event argued that over the past several decades biden has a proven track record of being the best friend of indians and indianamericans be it as a senator from delaware or as a vice president under the obama administrationtheres no question president biden would build a more inclusive tolerant just and fair administration that would take usindia relations to new heights verma said at the event an electorate coming of age indian americans for biden community town hallhe urged the indianamerican community to make bidens dream of making india and the us the two closet nations in the world a realityi can confidently say there would have been no us india civil nuclear deal but for joe biden verma saidin 2006 i remember the remarks he made where he said my dream is that in 2020 the two closest nations in the world will be india and the united states if that occurs the world will be safer think about that for a second he made those remarks in 2006 and here we are its