Washington: Two top members of a U.S. Congress constituted commission on religious freedom have expressed sadness over nomination of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as BJP prime ministerial candidate, terming him as the ”poster boy” of India’s failure to punish the violent.
“It was another son of Gujarat, Mahatma Gandhi, who once offered a broad, tolerant vision for the country and its multi-religious society,” wrote Katrina Lantos Swett and Mary Ann Glendon, in a special op-ed Special to CNN.
“So, as 2014 draws nigh, whose vision will be embraced? Which India will prevail – that of religious freedom or religious intolerance? Time will tell,” they wrote.
While Swett is Vice Chairwoman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), Glendon is a USCIRF Commissioner.
The op-ed “The two faces of India” was published on the blog of the popular CNN program “Global Public Square”, which is run by eminent Indian American Fareed Zakaria.
“The poster child for India’s failure to punish the violent remains Narendra Modi, who is Gujarat’s chief minister – a post he held during the 2002 riots,” they wrote.
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