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Sikhs In USA Not Feeling Safe, Capt Amarinder Singh Tells Sushma Swaraj

Darpan News Desk IANS, 12 Jun, 2017 12:21 PM

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today directed Indian Ambassador in the US Navtej Sarna to update Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh about issues related to safety and security of Indians in that country.

Swaraj’s direction came after the Chief Minister, in a tweet, requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Swaraj to take up the issue of security concerns of Indians living in the US with President Donald Trump.

“I have asked Sarna to update you on this,” Swaraj tweeted. Earlier, Amarinder said in a tweet, “Indians, Sikhs in US are not feeling safe, please take up their security with @realDonaldTrump on priority @narendramodi ji @SushmaSwaraj ji.”

Indians, Sikhs in US are not feeling safe, please take up their security with @realDonaldTrump on priority @narendramodi ji @SushmaSwaraj ji
— Capt.Amarinder Singh (@capt_amarinder) June 11, 2017

There has been a spate of attacks on Indians in several parts of the US in the past three months. A 26-year-old man from Telangana was shot at by an unidentified person in California on June 4.

The Chief Minister called upon US President Donald Trump to be sensitive towards the concerns of India in this matter as the two countries were the world's leading democracies, which needed to work together to promote the value of equality and tolerance.

He told the White House that there was no place for such intolerance in a democracy, and the Trump government should take stringent steps to check such incidents.

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