WASHINGTON DC – Trump To Discuss Religious Freedom With Modi. US President Donald Trump will raise the issue of religious freedom in India during his meetings with Prime Minister Narendra Modi next week.
According to details, a senior administration official said this. Trump is due in India on Monday. He will talk about the two countries’ shared traditions of democracy and religious freedom. The senior administration official said in a conference call on Friday ahead of the two-trip.
“He will raise these issues, particularly the religious freedom issue, which is extremely important to this administration,” the official said. “And I think that the President will talk about these issues in his meetings with Prime Minister Modi. And note that the world is looking to India to continue to uphold its democratic traditions. Along with respect for religious minorities,” the official said.
Modi’s government has faced large scale-protests at home and criticism abroad for enacting a citizenship law that is seen as discriminating against Muslims. That measure came months after the Indian government withdrew the special autonomy given to the Muslim-majority territory of Kashmir.
Modi’s ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party denies any bias against the country’s 180 million Muslims. Meanwhile, Modi, who has built a personal rapport with Trump, is pulling out all the stops for the visit, which will kick off in his political hometown of Ahmedabad with a massive public reception. Trump To Discuss Religious Freedom With Modi.
Meanwhile, Four U.S. senators wrote to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo this month, saying Modi’s steps in Kashmir and the citizenship laws were troubling and “threaten the rights of certain religious minorities and the secular character of the state.”