Eric Garcetti, President Joe Biden’s shut aide, was confirmed as US Ambassador to India after the Senate on Wednesday voted on his nomination, filling a key diplomatic place after a niche of two years.

The Senate voted 52-42 advancing the previous Los Angeles mayor’s nomination that caps off months of stasis for Garcetti.

The previous mayor’s nomination was pending earlier than the US Congress since July 2021 when he was nominated for the celebrated diplomatic posting by Biden. The place has remained vacant for greater than two years.

Mr Garcetti’s nomination was not delivered to the Senate ground for a vote over the last Congress because the ruling Democratic Celebration didn’t have sufficient assist to get him by means of.

The 52-year-old was not confirmed by the Senate in President Biden’s first two years in workplace amid issues by some lawmakers that the then-mayor had not adequately dealt with allegations towards a former senior adviser of sexual assault and harassment.

President Biden renominated Garcetti to the identical place in January this yr.

The final US ambassador to India, Kenneth Juster, stepped down in January 2021 after the change of presidency in America.