Biden Campaign and Hindu fascists

BY: ASLAM ABDULLAH

Joe Biden, aspiring to be the Democratic Presidential nominee, had appointed Amit Jani, a Hindu nationalist and the supporter of India’s Prime Minister, accused of masterminding the Gujarat massacre of Muslims in 2002. However, the voters in large numbers objected to his decision, and on March 9, 2020, the Biden campaign nominated Farooq A. Mitha as the Muslim outreach coordinator. Biden, however, did not remove Jani. Why? Like a real politician, Biden wants to play safe and court Modi for getting Hindu votes.

Biden campaign may have miscalculated its appeasement of Hindu nationalists. Modi has already endorsed Trump. In Houston, in front of the world in the public rally in August 2019, Modi had declared, “Four more years to Trump.” No matter how many Hindu nationalists Biden or any Democratic candidate appoint, Hindu American supporters of Modi and his organization, the Rashtriya Swayam Sewak Sangh (RSS), would not back him. The RSS is a fascist organization that believes in the supremacy of

Hindu upper castes and wants to turn the secular and plural constitution of India into a Hindu nation with no equal rights to people of non-Indian faiths such as Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. Amit Jani has close ties with RSS and its counterparts in the U.S. The other reason could be the influence of RSS supporters in his own state Delaware, where Hindus are the second-largest religious group after Christianity. Between 2000 and 2010, Hindus saw 116 percent growth in Delaware.