Taking up cudgels for NRIs

Amarinder Singh is miffed at PM Modi for not taking up issue of recent attacks on Indians abroad

The verbal volleys on the hustings aren’t quite over with the end of the polls in Punjab last month. Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh is now miffed at PM Modi for not taking up the issue of recent attacks on Indians abroad. Referring to the latest incident of a racist attack against a Sikh youth in the US, Singh said on Monday that the growing intolerance and a spate of violence targeting the Indian diaspora had serious implications for the country and needed to be checked before it escalated to unmanageable levels. It was not enough for the Indian government to condemn and express concern over these shocking and biased attacks, he said, calling for urgent high-level intervention to prevent their recurrence. Given the presence of a large number of NRIs in the US hailing from Punjab, Singh also urged the Trump administration to act sternly against elements perpetrating hate crimes.