Congress President Rahul Gandhi met several anti-India lawmakers on 10th September from the United States (US), including Ilhan Omar, Ro Khanna, and Barbara Lee. Congress’s official handle shared the photographs of the meeting and Rahul Gandhi’s page on Facebook. In its post on Facebook, Congress wrote, “Shri Rahul Gandhi met with U.S. lawmakers at the Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC.”
The list of attendees comprised of Ilhan Omar, Ro Khanna, Jonathan Jackson, Raja Krishnamoorthi, Barbara Lee, Shri Thanedar, Jesús G. “Chuy” García, Hank Johnson, and Jan Schakowsky. Reportedly, the meeting was hosted by Bradley James Sherman. Rahul Gandhi wrote sharing the photographs of the meeting, ‘It was a pleasure to meet with a delegation of U.S. lawmakers at the Rayburn House in Washington, DC. We had a meaningful discussion about our shared commitment to building a progressive future and strengthening the Indo-US relationship’.
However, the details of the discussion or any video of the same were not provided by the Congress Party on any of the social media platform which raises concerns about the topics they might have discussed.
WHO IS ILHAN OMAR ?
Ilhan Omar is a Somalia-born radical Islamist politician from the US. She was elected to the House of Representatives from Minnesota on a Democrat ticket. Omar runs errands for the powerful Islamist lobbies, whose only aim is to push radical Islam in modern societies. A representative of Minnesota, Ilhan Omar, has many times in the past parroted the same lies peddled by the radical Islamists, and Pakistan. Omar is invloved in propagating anti-India narratives, specifically targeting the Narendra Modi government, and has sought Biden Administration’s official help to further her propaganda war.
Ilhan Omar has been at the forefront of taking the issue of Kashmir in the US House of representatives with help from other left-liberal circles. Omar has also said lies about the alleged attacks on minorities, issues of human rights, and freedom of speech in India, claiming that Muslims in the country are facing atrocities at the hands of Hindus.
Omar is a pawn of the Muslim Brotherhood and Qatar’s rulers. She also has ties with radical Islamic organizations such as Islamic Relief and Helping Hand for Relief and Development (HHRD), the sister organization of the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), a Western branch of the Jamaat-e-Islami, a terror group that is banned in India. HHRD also has ties with Islamic terror groups such as Lashkar-e-Taiba in Pakistan.
WHO IS ROHIT KHANNA ?
US Democrat Congressman Rohit Khanna is also called by the name Ro Khanna. He is an Indian-origin American politician. In August 2019, Ro Khanna joined the Pakistan Congressional Caucus and became the first Indian-American to do so. This move had increased eyebrows in the Indian-American community, while he was welcomed by the Pakistanis, including Pakistan’s ambassador to the US.
On 24th March, US House Representative Ro Khanna made unsolicited remarks about the internal political affairs of India. The development comes after Congress scion Rahul Gandhi was disqualified from Lok Sabha following his conviction in a criminal defamation case. In a tweet, he claimed, ‘The expulsion of Rahul Gandhi from parliament is a deep betrayal of Gandhian philosophy and India’s deepest values.” The US politician further added, “This is not what my grandfather sacrificed years in jail for. Narendra Modi, you have the power to reverse this decision for the sake of Indian democracy.”
Apart from these two, Barbara Lee was also present at the meeting. She is a Modi-hater. She had written a letter against PM Modi’s arrival in the US nine years after a resolution to refuse him a visa. In June 2023, she was one of the Members of US Congress who wrote to President Biden asking him either not to host the State Dinner to Prime Minister Narendra Modi or to raise some specific issues.
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