‘Indian-americans divided on India’
While broadly supportive of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Indian-americans are divided on the current trajectory of Indian democracy, according to a newly published analysis of an online survey conducted in September 2020. Covering 1,200 Indian-americans, the survey conducted by Yougov for Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Johns Hopkins University and the University of Pennsylvania in the run up to the US elections in November 2020, showed that 36% of the respondents felt India was on the right path, while 39% said it isn’t. The analysis also reaffirms BJP’S continuing popularity among Indianamericans. Modi, too, remains popular — with 35% strongly approving his job performance and 13% approving of it. “This support is greatest among Republicans, Hindus, people in the engineering profession and those not born in the US,” it said.
NEW DELHI: The city police on Tuesday told the Delhi high court that an FIR has been registered to trace a 27-year-old man who had gone missing while participating in the farmers’ tractor rally on Republic Day.
A bench of justices Siddharth Mridul and Anup J Bhambhani was informed by the police that three teams have been constituted to trace the missing man, Bajinder, and assistance is being sought from Haryana Police.
The court was hearing a habeas corpus plea moved by the brother of the missing farmer, alleging that Bajinder was illegally detained. Petitioner Baljeet, represented by advocates Benipal Naginder and Aditi Pundhir, has claimed that Bajinder had participated in the tractor rally on January 26 and was missing since then.
On Tuesday, the bench told the senior superintendent of police, Jhajjar, to render all possible assistance to the Delhi Police to locate the man, advocate Naginder said.
The court also asked the police, represented by Delhi government’s standing counsel (criminal) Rahul Mehra and advocate Chaitanya Gosain, to file a status report before next date of hearing on February 17.
The police have also told the court that they have not arrested any such person in connection with the violence on January 26.
The tractor parade on January 26, held by farmers to highlight their demands to repeal three new farm laws, had turned violent as police clashed with protesters. A section of farmers had also reached the Red Fort and hoisted a religious flag there.