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“Certainly human rights is of concern to the United States, and it's a foundational element to President Biden's foreign policy,” White House national security strategic communications coordinator John Kirby said.Ī group of more than 70 lawmakers asked Biden in a letter Tuesday to “discuss the full range of issues” facing the two nations during the visit. A spokesman stressed it is a topic Biden routinely addresses. The White House said Biden would raise human rights questions with Modi when they speak privately.
Cori Bush, of Missouri, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, of New York, also are protesting the event. “It’s shameful that Modi has been given a platform at our nation’s capital,” said Tlaib, D-Mich.ĭemocratic Reps. Rashida Tlaib said she would boycott Modi’s address to Congress during the visit over his “long history of human rights abuses, anti-democratic actions, targeting Muslims & religious minorities, and censoring journalists.” She described the conduct in a tweet as “unacceptable.” “It's very awkward, and embarrassing even, to have the rhetorical emphasis on democracy for the foreign policy, while at the same time this critical partner is seen as backsliding,” said Irfan Nooruddin, a professor of Indian politics at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. Freedom House now rates it only partially free. Organizations that track democracy have downgraded India. president is throwing India’s prime minister a lavish state dinner.įor a politician who has made strengthening democracy a central theme of his administration, President Joe Biden’s courtship of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi underscores the tension between his campaign principles and the realities of being president.īiden’s administration has accused India’s government of participating in unlawful and arbitrary killings, restricting freedom of speech and allowing violence against religious, racial and ethnic minorities. government has accused India of engaging in significant human rights abuses.Īnd yet, on Thursday, the U.S. WASHINGTON − India’s democracy is at a weak point.
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