The US Congresswoman from New York called out US President Donald Trump and said “We must not enable this rise in sectarian violence.”
The Narendra Modi government attracted more criticism over the violence in Delhi with US Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez calling out president Donald Trump for entering an arms deal with India.
President Trump is engaging in arms deals with Modi while his administration is ethnically cleansing the country’s religious minorities. We must not enable this rise in sectarian violence. https://t.co/WwUyf9cNCN
— Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@RepAOC) March 2, 2020
Cortez’s comments come after Democratic presidential candidate and senator Bernie Sanders’s reaction to the violence in northeast Delhi. Sanders too had criticised Trump for his show of great friendship with Narendra Modi at a time when Delhi was burning. Also Read: Bernie Sanders threatened by BJP general secretary