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Narendra Modi shouldn't be granted visa, says US official
Updated On: 16 August, 2013 04:21 PM IST | | Agencies
Narendra Modi, chief minister of Gujarat, should not be granted US visa "because of the very serious doubts that remain and that hang over Modi relative to his role in the horrific events of 2002 in Gujarat", said an official.
Asked to comment on Modi's emergence as the de facto prime ministerial candidate for India's opposition Bharatiya Janata Party, Katrina Lantos Swett, vice chairperson of the bipartisan US Commission on International Religious Freedom, told the New York Times: "It is no outside nation's or no individual's role to tell them who should be the next leader of India."
But "for the people of India, I think it is important for them to consider very carefully who it is who they want to be their next prime minister", she said.
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