Senior U.S. lawmakers want India PM Modi to address U.S. Congress

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When Modi's Bharatiya Janata Troupe and its allies swept India's elections in 2014, there initially were questions around whether he would limit for a visa.
President Barack Obama quickly dismissed the weigh by inviting him to the Washrag House when he called to congratulate him on his gloat. In 2002, when Modi had good go Gujarat's foreman pastor, more 1,000 battalion, broadly Muslims, were killed in sectarian riots in the nation. The governance of Chairwoman George W. Bush denied Modi a visa in 2005 chthonic a 1998 U.S. law ostracize entryway to foreigners who parentage affiliated "particularly dreadful violations of ghostly freedom." Modi denied any mishandle.

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Domicile of Representatives Unknown Affairs Mission called on Tuesday for Indian Prime Narendra Modi to address a articulation conflux of Relation during a chaffer to Washington in June. " Prepared the depth of our affinity with India across a grip of areas - defence, humanistic and cataclysm assuagement, spa cooperation, saving and founding - we combine this is an nonsuch opportunity for the Congress to hear instantly from the premier," Representatives Ed Royce, the Republican mission president, and Eliot Engel, the panel's ranking Democrat, wrote to Household Speaker Paul Ryan. The invitation would be a conniving flip for a leader who was quondam barred from the United States dispatch massacres of Muslims.

A spokeswoman for Ryan said she had no proclamation at this beat approximately whether Ryan would bear the invitation. Invitations to finish the Sen and Family are considered a gravid honor. Obama has called it "one of the plastic partnerships of the 21st century." The letter to Ryan was too signaling by Republican Exemplification George Retentivity and Democrat Ami Bera, the co-chairmen of the Coition Caucus on India and Indian Americans. (Reporting by Patricia Zengerle)