The Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s meeting with the Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg at the Digital India meeting at Facebook HQ was a huge hit, with both the achievers showing mutual admiration and Zuckerberg even creating a special Tricolor filter that enables to change the display pictures on Facebook embedded with the Indian Tricolor.
However, here’s one protesting group that is not amused by both the visionaries. The Alliance For Justice And Accountability (AJA), a well known liberal activist group in America, protested Modi’s visit to the US and demanded Modi’s accountability over the Gujarat riots in 2002. The angry protestors shouted ‘ModiFail’ slogans and displayed banners expressing their dissent against his visit.
Not stopping here, the AJA also launched the website ‘Zuck, Wash Your Hands’ a week ago and even sent the Facebook co-founder nearly 250 hand sanitizers asking him to ‘remove bloodstains left behind from shaking hands with Narendra Modi.’ Each bottle also accompanied a letter mentioning the names of people who were killed and became homeless in Gujarat riots.
The AJA also created a Facebook event that urged people to join the mass gathering, with the below message:
On September 28th, 2014 – the diasporic Indian community will honor toxic Hindutva nationalism.
They will honor public relations driven notions of development, and increased privatization that rely on the disenfranchisement of the poor and the marginalized.
On September 28th, by celebrating Narendra Modi, the Indian American community will disregard the memories of the thousands who were killed, raped and displaced in Gujarat in 2002 and excuse genocidal Islamophobia.
The Alliance for Justice and Accountability stand in protest and condemn the prestige falsely handed to Narendra Modi. Regardless of his political office, we demand that Narendra Modi face a courtroom and a judge for his crimes against humanity!