Modi
US visa controversy: BJP gets aggressive as MPs back down.
The
idea was to cause embarrassment to Narendra Modi in perpetuity. It
ended up embarrassing those who tried to ensure that he does not get a
US visa instead. The Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC) which
campaigned for a letter from Indian lawmakers against Modi and
supposedly obtained their signatures, real or cut-and-paste, surely has
left a lot of MPs red faced.
The
idea was to cause embarrassment to Narendra Modi in perpetuity. It
ended up embarrassing those who tried to ensure that he does not get a
US visa instead. The Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC) which
campaigned for a letter from Indian lawmakers against Modi and
supposedly obtained their signatures, real or cut-and-paste, surely has
left a lot of MPs red faced.
The
controversy around the current letter, bearing signatures of 25 Rajya
Sabha members and 40 from the Lok Sabha, first sent to Obama on 26
November, then on 5 December last year and re-sent on Sunday is because
of its content. It says: “We wish to respectfully urge you to maintain
the current policy of denying Mr Modi a visa to the United States”.
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