Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Don't give US visa to Modi, 65 MPs urge President Obama

This is what politics comes down to finally -- the backstabbing. Even as BJP chief Rajnath Singh is in the US trying to build a case for Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi to be granted a US visa, 65 MPs have written to the US President Barack Obama against it.

In their letters to Obama, the MPs have urged him to continue their current policy to deny Modi a US visa.

The two letters, one signed by 25 Rajya Sabha MPs and another signed by 40 Lok Sabha MPs, including, according to reports, CPI-M's Sitaram Yechury and CPI-M MP Achutanandan. The letter campaign against Modi was initiated by Independent Rajya Sabha member Mohammed Adeeb.

"I would be the last person to write to the US Administration and to do something like this. We don't want anyone to interfere in the internal affairs of the country. These are issues which will have to be settled in India politically," Yechury said.

"We wish to respectfully urge you to maintain the current policy of denying Mr. Modi a visa to the United States," says the letter.

The letters were reportedly old letters that had been written on November 26 and December 5, 2012 respectively and re-faxed to the White House on Sunday.

The US had imposed a visa ban on Modi after the 2002 Godhra riots. The ban had come on the grounds of human rights violations in Gujarat under Chief Minister Modi.

Source: http://indiatoday.feedsportal.com/c/33614/f/589700/s/2f0cc7b3/sc/1/l/0Lindiatoday0Bintoday0Bin0Cstory0Cnarendra0Emodi0E650Emps0Eurge0Epresident0Ebarack0Eobama0Evisa0C10C2959340Bhtml/story01.htm

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