Joe Walsh Ahead of His Time re New Prime Minister for India

Joe Walsh

Joe Walsh

India’s newly-elected Prime Minister Narendra Modi was denied a visa to visit the United States by the Barack Obama administration because some human rights groups accused him of not doing enough to stop Hindu riots that ended up killing Muslims while head of the northern state called Gujarat.

Standing with Modi back in 2012 was Congressman Joe Walsh, running his unsuccessful campaign for re-election against Tammy Duckworth.

At the time I wrote an article entitled,

Walsh Courts Indian-American Community


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Joe Walsh Ahead of His Time re New Prime Minister for India — 3 Comments

  1. The Obama Administration did not deny a visa to Modi in 2005 – sorry – that was Bush.

    “The administration of President George W. Bush denied Modi a visa in 2005 under a 1998 U.S. law barring entry to foreigners who have committed “particularly severe violations of religious freedom…when Modi had just become Gujarat’s chief minister, more than 1,000 people, mostly Muslims, were killed in sectarian riots in the state.”

    Regardless, Walsh was promoting Modi as an “Indian Tea Party guy” according to a dailyherald.com article and was doing so to court Asian voters who made up 12% of the district when he was running against Tammy Duckworth in 2012. The State Department, when asked by Walsh if they would renew Modi’s visa, indicated “all (Modi) has got to do (to get a visa) is reapply.” So now, in another political move, the Obama administration is letting Bush-bygones-be-bygones and allow Modi into the country to forge a relationship.

    And they say the President and Joe Walsh don’t have much in common?!

    http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/16/us-india-usa-obama-call-idUSBREA4F0NR20140516
    http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20120603/news/706039869/

  2. Things are changing now.

    I reckon I read in today’s news that Narendra Modi received an invitation on behalf of Barack Obama.

    Someone from US embassy in India delivered it to him.

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