Caravan News
HOUSTON – As Prime Minister Narendra Modi was addressing Indian Americans at Houstons’s NRG stadium in the United States on Sunday, thousands of people outside the stadium and in other American cities are protesting over the Kashmir lockdown and other allegations of human rights violations against the Modi government.
They were also raising the issues of mob lynchings and targeting the critics like former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt. They were holding the placards and raising slogans by equating Modi with Nazi dictator Hitler.
“The pluralist and secular constitution of India has repeatedly come under a grave threat by the actions of Prime Minister Modi’s government for over five years,” said Syed Afzal Ali, national vice president of the Indian American Muslim Council.
Posted by Alliance for Justice and Accountability on Sunday, September 22, 2019
Another group, Hindus for Human Rights, said atrocities against the minorities in India cannot be tolerated in the name of their faith.
“As Hindus, we feel like the atrocities happening in India … is all being done by a Hindu extremist government in the name of our beloved faith, Hinduism. It is our absolute religious, moral and human obligation to stand up and be counted on the side of history that said: ‘No, not in our name,’” said Sunita Viswanath, the co-founder of the group.
Al Jazeera’s Kimberly Halkett said there were tens of thousands of protesters in Houston. She alleged that the organizers of the ‘Howdy Modi’ also targeted media-persons for showing the ongoing protest against Modi outside the stadium.
“To give you sense of how tense things got here … our photographer got his media credentials yanked, his camera was pulled away. This is something the organisers of the event really don’t want to have broadcast around the world,” she said.
“What they want is the appearance of Donald Trump on stage alongside Modi. They want this diplomatic win.”
