Trump’s campaign team has launched a new social media campaign targeting IndianAmerican voters who are variously estimated to number between 2 and 2.3 million voters, according to experts.One Facebook ad features Trump and First Lady Melania Trump standing in front of the famed Taj Mahal in India which they visited during the Feb.24-25 trip.
Indian Americans came out in large numbers in several cities across the U.S. to protest against India’s citizenship laws, Jan. 26. The protests, held as part of a “Day of Action,” and organized by the Coalition to Stop Genocide, a broad alliance of Indian Americans and U.S.-based civil rights organizations and activists, coincided with India’s 71st Republic Day.
The Hindu-American community and those supporting Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his ruling Bharatiya Janata Party have hailed the Supreme Court for delivering “a just and fair judgment,” and providing a “closure” and “victory” to both the Hindu and the Muslim communities. On the other hand, are the minorities, the liberals and the progressives, who call the verdict “flawed” and a “failure for democracy.”
It was a bolt from the blue for many in the Indian-American community when lawmakers, one after another, pilloried India in the Congress last month taking the Narendra Modi government to task for its alleged human rights violations against minorities, particularly its actions in Kashmir after stripping its special status under the Constitution.
As Prime Minister Narendra Modi presented a rosy picture of India making progress on all fronts under his watch in front of a 50,000-strong audience inside the NRG stadium in Houston, Texas, Sept. 22, social justice organizations staged protests outside the venue, denouncing Modi for his “authoritarian rule” leading to ethnic violence and human rights abuses in India.
On the eve of Prime Minster Narendra Modi’s Sept. 22 Houston rally, dubbed “Howdy Modi!”, in which President Trump is expected to share the stage with the visiting Indian leader, a coalition of social justice organizations and rights groups gathered at the CAIR-Houston office to deplore the event, calling it “a propaganda exercise of an authoritarian ruler.”
New York-based Sadhana: Coalition of Progressive Hindus has sent an open letter to online ecommerce company Mayfair, urging its billionaire co-founder Niraj Shah to stop selling furniture to the U.S. government for detention centers and other facilities.
A host of community organizations, including Sadhana: Coalition of Progressive Hindus, staged a pro-democracy rally in front of the New York Indian Consulate April 6 to draw attention to the recent “repression of democratic dissent and human rights” in India.
A coalition of human rights and religious freedom activists, who advocate on behalf of minorities in India, have exhorted Prime Minister Narendra Modi to halt the tsunami of Hindutva extremism against Muslims, Christians and Dalits, and implored him bring to justice the perpetrators of this wanton violence.
Brooklyn Borough Hall reverberated with soulful renditions of Sri Krishna bhajans and chanting of hymns from the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad as 300 people gathered for an interfaith celebration of Diwali on Nov. 14.
