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The group stated that Navarro’s language “constitutes not only a cultural violation but also a reckless provocation that endangers the dignity of over a billion Hindus”.
White House trade advisor Peter Navarro (Image: Reuters)
Days after Trump advisor Peter Navarro’s statement over Brahmin, a Hindu advocacy group in the United States has demanded that President Donald Trump fire his senior trade advisor. The development came in view of Navarro’s “Brahmins profiteering at the expense of the Indian people” remark, which was made in the context of India buying discounted oil from Russia.
HinduPACT’s American Hindus Against Defamation noted that Navarro’s remarks were “inappropriate” and “Hinduphobic”.
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The group stated that the White House official’s language “constitutes not only a cultural violation but also a reckless provocation that endangers the dignity of over a billion Hindus”.
“It (Navarro’s remark) is not a ‘critique’ it is a colonial-era trope recycled to depict India as unjust,” AHAD declared, adding, “This is not foreign policy. It’s weaponised Hinduphobia,” the group’s Executive Chair, Ajay Shah, said, “People like Navarro have no place in American political life.”
As per the website, AHAD calls itself a ‘Hindu watchdog group dedicated to addressing and countering defamation, misrepresentation, and prejudice against Hinduism”.
Navarro’s ‘Brahmins Profiteering’ Remark
Peter Navarro stirred a massive controversy with his remarks on ‘Brahmins’ over India’s purchase of Russian oil. The row broke last month after Trump’s trade advisor said, “India is nothing but a laundromat for the Kremlin…You got Brahmins profiteering at the expense of the Indian people.”
He alleged that Indian refiners were buying discounted Russian crude, processing it, and exporting it at a premium.
The attack came as Prime Minister Narendra Modi was in China – his first visit in seven years – for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Beijing. The PM met China’s Xi Jinping and Putin while in Tianjin and held deep conversation with them.
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