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No J&Ok and assault on Prime Minister Modi: Biden has crossed a line that he shouldn’t have

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The Democrats think about themselves to be the harbingers of democracy the world over and infrequently use it as an excuse to bomb the hell out of the Middle East and the Biden administration isn’t any totally different.In the primary few months of the Biden administration, it has been amply clear that the USA desires to focus on and alienate all of the international locations that had been shut allies of the Trump administration. Now, in a transfer which might be seen as an try to provoke a regime change, a US government-funded suppose tank, Freedom House has not solely stripped away India’s tag of “free” but additionally distorted India’s map by fully chopping away the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir and concurrently attacking PM Modi.In its annual report, the place the US-based suppose tank downgraded India’s standing from “free” to “partly free”, Freedom House’s propaganda was uncovered because it distorted India’s map by totally chopping out the area of Jammu and Kashmir.“India is not rated “Free” in Freedom within the World 2021. Political rights and civil liberties have eroded in India since Narendra Modi turned prime minister in 2014, inflicting the nation to drop from Free to Partly Free in 2020,” tweeted Freedom House with a distorted map of India.BREAKING: India is just not rated “Free” in Freedom within the World 2021. Political rights and civil liberties have eroded in India since Narendra Modi turned prime minister in 2014, inflicting the nation to drop from Free to Partly Free in 2020. #FreedomInTheWorld https://t.co/HuNzEAc6Nw pic.twitter.com/mae0CmGpi5— Freedom House (@freedomhouse) March 3, 2021The report, when learn intimately, is stuffed with vitriol towards PM Modi and has even attacked India’s judiciary. Seemingly oblivious of the info, the report attacked the Indian judiciary for delivering judgements that favour the BJP particularly the Ram Mandir verdict because it lamented how a “historic” mosque was “unlawfully” destroyed.“Several key Supreme Court rulings in recent years have been favorable to the BJP, including the 2019 decision allowing the construction of a Hindu temple on the site of a historic mosque, and the court’s March 2020 decision to deny bail to a scholar and prominent critic of Modi who was charged with supporting a banned Maoist group,” learn the report.The report acknowledged, “Rather than serving as a champion of democratic practice and a counterweight to authoritarian influence from countries such as China, Modi and his party are tragically driving India itself toward authoritarianism.”It added, “Under Modi, India appears to have abandoned its potential to serve as a global democratic leader, elevating narrow Hindu nationalist interests at the expense of its founding values of inclusion and equal rights for all.”Copying from the playbook of the likes of Rana Ayyub, the report attacked India’s Covid induced lockdown. Ironically, whereas India has stupendously managed the pandemic, the supposed first world led by the USA continues to bungle in its dealing with of the pandemic.“The ruling Hindu nationalist movement also encouraged the scapegoating of Muslims, who were disproportionately blamed for the spread of the virus and faced attacks by vigilante mobs,” acknowledged the report.The report additionally claimed that “the political rights of India’s Muslims continue to be threatened” by means of legal guidelines just like the CAA.The USA wants India to counter China within the Indo-Pacific. While India can do it with out the US, the US — if it desires to retain its management standing on this planet, will want India to counter and verify China which is instantly coming for the USA’s pursuits.The Indian diaspora could also be divided among the many Democrats and Republicans, however on PM Modi they’re largely united, and they won’t tolerate an assault on the democratically elected chief of India and the distortion of India’s map. Kashmir is a sentimental difficulty for Indians and Biden has crossed a line and maybe irreparably broken Indo-US ties.