Why did the US Congress give him the honor of addressing a joint session of Congress? Why, then, did the Biden administration fete him at the White House with a state dinner? The ongoing political nightmare in parts of India is much worse than even that conveys. In 2022 it wrote: “Authorities throughout India arrested activists, journalists, and other critics of the government on politically motivated criminal charges, including of terrorism.”
Human Rights Watch has multiple reports documenting the illiberal slide of Indian democracy. The rap sheet on Modi and the BJP (his party) is long. Salman Rushdie recently described India under Modi as a “very autocratic state which is unkind to minorities, which is fantastically oppressive of journalists, where people are very afraid.” I mean, yes, best-selling author and voice of conscience, Arundati Roy, has spoken against the Modi regime in India for some time and sees India under his leadership as slipping into Hindu fascism. There are some things everyone should know that aren’t getting attention about India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his recent visit to Washington: things that aren’t just about Modi’s politics or a “democracy v. Worst of all, the trend of a global far right-of which Modi is a part-is the greater problem which US policy is actively abetting because of its distorted perception of the China threat. But India does not need US support to balance China and will not temper its own foreign policy to fit US preferences. Abstract: Washington overlooks the rising Hindu-fascism of Narendra Modi's regime because it thinks the US-India defense relationship is a counterweight to Chinese power.
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