PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Anjuman Sunnat-ul-Jamaat Affiliation (ASJA) is expressing its “measured but profound reservations” relating to the go to of India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Trinidad and Tobago.
Modi is because of arrive right here on Thursday on the invitation of Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar, following her victory within the common election on April 28.
In an announcement, ASJA mentioned whereas it respects the rights of sovereign nations to pursue diplomatic engagement, “we consider it’s essential to critically study Mr. Modi’s political legacy, which incorporates the 2002 Gujarat riots, the discriminatory Citizenship Modification Act…”.
The Muslim group mentioned that Mod has “repeatedly employed divisive rhetoric” in referring to Muslims as “infiltrators in public addresses, thereby fueling Islamophobic sentiment and legitimizing anti-Muslim violence.
ASJA mentioned that these actions, taken collectively, have raised vital considerations amongst human rights organizations, authorized students, and interfaith communities relating to the erosion of pluralism and constitutional protections in India.
“ASJA due to this fact urges the general public to method this go to with considerate discernment and calls on the Muslim group to reply with principled composure, non secular freedom, and human dignity by way of peaceable and constructive channels”.
The federal government has introduced that non-essential public providers and faculties in Trinidad will shut early on Wednesday to accommodate Modi’s go to.
On Thursday, he pays a courtesy name on President Christine Kangaloo on the President’s Home in St. Ann’s, the place he’s anticipated to be offered with this nation’s highest award, the Order of the Republic of TT (ORTT).
He’ll later tackle an meeting of each Homes of Parliament and interact in an alternate of memorandum of understandings MOUs with the federal government, in addition to attend a tree-planting ceremony.
