Tulsi Gabbard, US’s first ‘Hindu-American’ lawmaker, pulls out of Democratic Party – Times of India

Washington: The United States’ first ever self-proclaimed “Hindu-American, admin of white extracts with close ties with BJP-RSS The government in India is leaving the Democratic Party. Tulsi Gabbardwho ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020, announced on Tuesday that she was leaving the party, accusing it of being dominated by white, anti-white, warmongers.
“I can no longer live in the Democratic Party of today that is now in complete control of an oligarch of warships driven by cowardly awakenings who divide us by racializing every issue and inciting anti-white racism, actively Let’s work to undermine our God-given liberties that are enshrined in our Constitution,” Gabbard, a four-time Congress member from Hawaii, said in a video posted on Twitter.
He denounced the party for being “hostile to people of faith and spirituality” while protecting police and criminals “at the expense of law-abiding Americans”. He accused party leaders of “weaponizing national security for going after their political opponents and, above all, those who are pulling us closer to nuclear war.”
Gabbard recently became an outsider in the party after seeking the Democratic nomination in 2020 before backing Joe Biden’s candidacy. Many mainstream Democrats saw him as a Russian puppet whose views – on many issues – aligned more closely with those of the Trump Republican Party.
Although there are four lawmakers of Indian and Hindu descent in the US Congress, Gabbard claimed the first “Hindu-American” House representative by virtue of her adoption of Gaudiya Vaishnavism, which her American parents followed. She regards the Bhagavad Gita as a spiritual guide and took the oath of office in 2013 using her personal copy, which she gifted to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on a subsequent visit to the United States in 2014. Ram Madhav, a top RSS-BJP functionary, attended her wedding in Hawaii in 2015.
A military veteran who served in the Iraq War before entering Congress became strongly anti-war, repeatedly rebuking the US military establishment for dragging the country into foreign conflicts. Even as a Democratic lawmaker, he criticized then-President Barack Obama for allegedly being soft on radical Islam.