External Affairs Ministry terms comments on India in USCIRF Annual Report as biased, motivated

The External Affairs Ministry has termed the comments on India in USCIRF Annual Report as biased and motivated. In response to media queries regarding comments on India in US Commission on International Religious Freedom, USCIRF’s annual report, Ministry spokesperson, Arindam Bagchi rejected such



misrepresentation of facts, saying this only serves to discredit USCIRF itself. 

He urged USCIRF to desist from such efforts and develop a better understanding of India, its plurality, its democratic ethos and its constitutional mechanisms.