‘Biased, lacks credibility': India on USCIRF seeking ban on RSS

The External Affairs Ministry spokesperson, Randhir Jaiswal, said that the US body has been making "disparaging and inflammatory remarks" about India.

Washington, Aug 21 (PTI) A US-based advocacy group, HinduPACT, on Friday condemned the public opposition by members of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) to RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat’s visit to New York. USCIRF chair Asif Mahmood and Commissioner Gene…

"It is a biased organisation. I would say that we should keep away from such organisations as they have their own agenda and lack any credibility," he said.

The religious freedom commission described the Hindutva organisation as an umbrella body ‘whose sub-groups have perpetrated attacks on religious minorities’.

MEA refused to comment on Islamabad summoning a US diplomat over US Ambassador Gor’s recent remarks that Jammu and Kashmir is an “important part of India”