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Murali Balaji, a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania who co-chaired the group Hindu Americans for Biden, agreed.
He’s an American-born child of a South Asian family, and a practicing Hindu. He said in Harris, with her Indian and Jamaican heritage, he sees “much of what this country has become in terms of cross-cultural and racial ties.”
But he added, “that history-making moment is really overshadowed by the daunting task ahead.”
He also names climate change as a chief concern, along with mounting COVID-19 deaths, “repairing institutions” post-Trump, and “a massive disinformation system that quite literally led to an insurrection.”
How the American Sangh hopes to win the 2020 US elections Sergio Flores/Getty Images Sergio Flores/Getty Images
ON 20 SEPTEMBER, Princeton University’s Hindu Life Program held a discussion titled “Hindu-Americans and the 2020 Elections.” The virtual debate brought together Murali Balaji, the national co-chair of Hindu Americans for Biden, and Jay Kansara, a community organiser for Hindu Voices for Trump. In an electoral cycle marked by bitter partisan divisions, the event marked an unusually polite exchange between two men on opposite sides of the US political aisle.
The host of the event, Vineet Chander, was aware that political debates in 2020 had the potential to turn ugly. “We were fully prepared to skip this opportunity if we couldn’t ensure that we had the right people at the table,” Chander said, before introducing Balaji and Kansara. “Murali and Jay are friends. They are former colleagues. Interestingly, both of them worked
Ro Khanna â new Democrat vice-chair of US Congressâ India caucus who often upsets own community
Ro Khanna is a progressive Congressman from California who has repeatedly been at odds with Hindu Indian-Americans, especially on the issue of pluralism.
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New Delhi:Â Indian-American Congressman Ro Khanna was appointed as the Democratic vice-chair of the Congressional India Caucus Thursday, a position created for the first time since the body’s formation in 1994.
While the 44-year-old legislator from California has always been a strong proponent of India-US ties, he shares a somewhat fraught relationship with conservative Hindu Indian-Americans.
It Perpetuates Stereotypes Which Drive Hinduphobia : Hindus Oppose Chicago City Council s Anti-CAA Resolution
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The Coalition of Hindus of North America (CoHNA) in a letter to Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Chicago City Council Members has urged them to stand for persecuted refugees in the Indian subcontinent, by rejecting its anti-CAA resolution,
CoHNA terms the resolution as very divisive, full of falsehoods that reveals an extremely poor to non-existent understanding of the issues being referred to .
The release adds that this resolution propagates disinformation about Indians in general and Hindus in particular, vilifying them and perpetuates the stereotypes that drive Hinduphobia.