Democratic presidential candidate was under pressure to remove Indian American Jani for supporting Modi.
Soon after Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden appointed Indian American Amit Jani as his Muslim Outreach Coordinator, several progressive groups and civil rights organizations demanded his removal for supporting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Now media reports suggest that Biden may have taken note of the mounting pressure and replaced Jani as his Muslim outreach coordinator while retaining him as the campaign’s Asian-American and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) national vote director.
“Joe Biden’s presidential campaign has appointed a former aide to Hillary Clinton as senior advisor on Muslim American engagement following revelations that his predecessor has close ties to India’s right-wing Hindu government,” Middle East Eye reported.
Farooq Mitha, a longtime Biden supporter and former Muslim advisor to the Clinton campaign in 2016, will be the new Muslim outreach coordinator while Jani would continue to be the campaign’s Asian-American and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) national vote director, the Londion-based online news outlet reported.
Jani’s appointment was objected to by many for his close ties to the Modi government, which has been under fire lately for its divisive policies, including the passage of a controversial Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).
The enactment of CAA that fast tracks citizenship to non-Muslim refugees from India’s three Islamic neighbors, led to a series of protests across India and sparked worst communal violence in decades in the capital city of Delhi.
The Indian government is also being questioned about its failure in controlling the violence with in some cases even the police allegedly joining the miscreants who looted and burnt Delhi during President Donald Trump’s India visit.
At least two campaigns were floated online that demanded Jani’s removal from his position.
A few academics, activists and community leaders had also penned an open letter condemning the appointment of “Jani, an avid supporter of the Modi regime, as his Asian American and Pacific Islanders Outreach (AAPI) Director and Muslim Outreach Coordinator.”
Signatories included Alliance for Justice and Accountability and Alliance of South Asians Taking Action (ASATA) among others.
“We call upon the Biden campaign to terminate Amit Jani’s employment from the campaign,” they wrote.
“Despite presenting himself as a liberal counterweight to this virulent wave of Islamophobia, Joe Biden’s appointment of Amit Jani as his AAPI Outreach Coordinator is horrific.”
“It is unacceptable for the AAPI Outreach Coordinator of a Presidential candidate to have ties with Hindu fascists, for it jeopardizes his relationships with the entire AAPI community.
“The AAPI community has been weathering attacks on our religious freedom, immigration rights, xenophobia, and increased hate crimes.
“Biden should be hiring an AAPI Coordinator that can speak to all of our needs, not someone in bed with a violent Hindu nationalist movement,” the groups said.
In response to online petitions demanding Jani’s removal from the post, his supporters also started a counter petition calling for retaining his appointment.
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BTW, it is funny how all you BLADDY PAKKIS have these numerous BLADDY, FAKE websites spouting garbage …..
I have seen many CHUTIYA PUSSLIMS (mostly PAKKIS) quote these websites as actual news outlets…
I did some research many years back (Angana Chatterji was the wh*re who was exposed) and exposed many such fake ‘News Outlets’ run by PAKKI PUSSLIMS and AIDED by Indian PAKKIS. Most were anti-Modi BAXTARDS trying to bring Namo down. What happened? Namo (LITERALLY) fucked the likes of YOU (Balakot)
with Israeli-made SPICE bombs and send your homo ‘brethren’ to jannat.
Anyways, keep writing such anti-Hindu shit….. World knows the truth. And one day, ALL YOU PISSLAMIC BAXTARDS will pay for your CRIMES and SINS of past 1400 YEARS.
KARMA….. HAPPENS.
P.S.
I have now added you Zofin Fucksood (b!tch) to my watch list.
I think you need to learn proper english first, instead of slang learnt in indian universities.
This is a website and everyone has the right to opinion especially if its correct….
If you look at the whole of Surender[to china who occupy most of Ladakh while all indians denied it for about 2 months] Modi’s(SuMo) indian Media, it has been called out by the west as being fake.
And you must live in cloud cuckoo land if you think that the indian forces did any damage in Pakistan… there was no evidence whatsoever apart from a couple of crows and a dozen trees witnessed by the world media except indian media[who still think china has not invaded part of Ladakh]. By the way the response was so sweet and precise with 2 jets down and a prisoner who was sent packing after a cup of tea. The indians were so nervous(to put it nicely) that they even shot down their own helicopter with crew in the mayhem…… And then SuMo (Surrender Modi) said only if only he had his Rafale jets so he could respond(admitting defeat without response)…. Now he has his Rafale jet’s and the Pak forces have been waiting for him to decide who he is going to attack… He is the biggest coward going as he hasn’t mentioned China in any speeches since they have invaded and avoids talking about them but only bullies its smaller neighbors… but all its neighbors are ready now if he decides to start anything.
Since your style of writing is so INTELLIGENT, I can only see you as a keyboard warrior but what india needs now is proper warriors on the frontline in Ladakh, Arunchal Pradesh, Sikkim, Assam etc…. before its too late.
Let me know if you need proper actual news rather than fake stuff from the Modi Media of india. Its not surprising that you hide behind fake handles and websites so you can use this kind of language, it really shows your courage!!!!
come on gazwa-i-hind….