The Democrats may have been more circumspect over accommodating pro-BJP-RSS elements in the government following renewed activism by organisations opposed to the Hindutva project and also after witnessing the fate of such candidates, added the sources.
Congressional candidate Sri Preston Kulkarni lost the elections after strident opposition from Indian-American organisations and former US Congressperson Tulsi Gabbard also lost political ground because of this reason.
Sonal Shah has served on Biden’s unity task force but her father was the president of Overseas Friends of BJP-USA and is the founder of RSS-run Ekal Vidyalaya for which she has raised funds.
Jani’s may have been the case of lax vetting. Name Biden campaign’s ‘Muslim Outreach’ coordinator, he was re-appointed National Asian American and Pacific Islander Director after it was pointed out that his family had ties with PM Modi and other BJP leaders.
Fort Bend County Sheriff Troy Nehls was elected in November to become the next U.S. Representative in Texasâ 22nd Congressional District, which includes 75 percent of the county. He will be part of a class of 57 freshmen members of Congress.
During a Dec. 15 Zoom meeting with Don McCoy, president of the Fulshear-Katy Area Chamber of Commerce and Republican State Sen. Lois Kolkhorst of Brenham, Nehls outlined his agenda for his first term in Washington, D.C. and addressed his expectations for the 117th Congress during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
The Republican Congressman-elect said he has been a vocal critic of restrictive policies aimed at slowing the spread of COVID-19, which Nehls said are harmful to small businesses. He also took a jab at congressional leaders, chiding them for not providing additional coronavirus stimulus relief.
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A Reckoning for the Modi Democrats
Liberal Indian American politicians who have received donations from Hindu nationalists are facing new pressure to denounce the Modi government. Donald Trump and Narendra Modi at the Howdy, Modi! event in Houston, Texas, on September 22, 2019 (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)
Few places better demonstrate the ongoing demographic and political transformation of Texas than Fort Bend County. Located right outside of Houston, it is one of the most diverse parts of the country, with burgeoning immigrant communities and a population that is one quarter Hispanic and one fifth Asian. Churches sit next to synagogues, and mosques next to mandirs. And if there were a prototype for the Trump-era Democrat, it would have been Sri Preston Kulkarni, who ran for Congress in 2018 and 2020 for Texasâs Twenty-second District, which includes the vast majority of Fort Bend County.
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