Indian-origin activist Kshama Sawant says BJP ruling govt denying her visa
Updated: Feb 3rd, 2025
Activist Kshama Sawant, a former Seattle City Council member and critic of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) has been barred from visiting her elderly mother in Bengaluru, Karnataka after being denied a visa twice.
Sawant on Sunday took to her social media and accused India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP government of ‘denying her a visa to see my ill mother.
“I’m not alone. Modi has retaliated against other activists & journalists, denying or revoking entry into India,” she wrote.
She wrote on her X account, “My socialist Seattle City Council office took an unwavering stand against India’s right-wing, anti-worker, anti-Muslim PM Narendra Modi & his right-wing nationalist BJP party.”
“Modi & the BJP have waged sustained attacks on workers, farmers, Muslims, and other oppressed groups in India, including with the anti-Muslim, anti-poor CAA-NRC law, which denied citizenship to millions,” she added.
She wrote, “Donald Trump is now beginning his promised mass deportation campaign, including workplace raids. This continues the steady escalation of attacks on immigrant workers in the US, which has been carried out by both Democrats and Republicans.”
Sawant has shared a petition to “Urge Modi to stop this retaliation” on X.
Last year, a UK-based, Kashmiri-origin writer Nitasha Kaul was also stopped from entering India though she was invited by the Karnataka government for a seminar.
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