Lula da Silva’s re-election has major geopolitical importance. Lula has been at loggerheads with the Trump administration. The latter was openly interfering in the election process by backing Flavio Bolsonaro. This attempt to put a pro-US government in position in Latin America’s biggest country was an integral part of Trump administration’s revival of the Monroe Doctrine. The Global South would have been weakened with Lula’s defeat. Brazil is the strongest voice of the Global South in Latin America. BRICS would have been weakened too if the US promoted right wing had won in Brazil. Although Flavio Bolsonaro’s father did not walk out of BRICS when he won but today with the Trump administration pressure may have put to do so. Bilaterally too, Lula’s victory is a plus for relations with India. The agenda of bilateral ties has become much more substantial with the exchange of visits by Modi and Lula.