Rights advocates demand President Biden publicly call out what they describe as India's deteriorating human rights record, saying US approach of raising it in private with PM Modi has been a failure
Critics of the Modi government's human rights record have cited less press freedom, restrictions on minority religious rights and other forms of discrimination and backsliding on democratic rights. / Photo: AFP
In a press briefing on Wednesday in capital Washington DC, activists and academics also called for hearings in the US Congress about human rights in India under the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party [BJP] led by Modi, who is on a four-day visit to the United States. Critics of the Modi government's human rights record have cited less press freedom, restrictions on minority religious rights and other forms of discrimination and backsliding on democratic rights.
The White House may bring up human rights concerns, but it said that Biden will not"lecture" Modi on the issue.
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