Finally,some show of spine ,better late than never.It is amusing though to see some of the very same diplomutts of the MEA rise up in anger against the very nation whom they a*se licked throughout the decade of "Surrender" Singh.It is only when one of their very own tribe got shafted despicably by the barbaric sh*tworms of the State Dept. that they finally swung into action.
The manner in which the US has received colonial era gora demi-god like treatment under Surrender Singh and his team of servile eunuchs has been simply nauseating.Our babus after the good lady diplomat was humiliated and incarcerated and put behind bars with junkies,while the US still protects its terror agent Headlley,refusing to give India access to him for his role in 26/11 ,exposes the utter hypocrisy,racism and perversity of the Yanqui establishment. Treatment of Indians in the US,as the US regularly calls India,so-called "strategic" bum-chums, is nothing but a damnable lie.The US has been destabilising India for aeons,as it fears India-the world's largest democracy and its moral compass as a beacon to the world's genuine deocracies and an example to follow,as against the utter amoral warmongering and global domination policies of the US.The NSA spying on world leaders shows that the US will use any means whatsoever to cut the throats of its so-called closest friends.
India must retaliate even further by cancelling lucrative defence contracts with the US ,gifted to it,get "Durga to smile" this time round,and boot home a number of its racist diplomats.
India-US row over escalates over arrest of diplomat Devyani Khobragade in New York
India summons US ambassador and announces that it is withdrawing a series of diplomatic privileges to US officials
Andrew Buncombe
Tuesday 17 December 2013
The arrest of an Indian diplomat amid claims she had lied on a visa form for her domestic worker has turned into a major row between Washington and Delhi with India’s national security adviser calling her treatment “despicable and barbaric”.
India on Tuesday summoned the US ambassador and announced that it was withdrawing a series of diplomatic privileges to US officials. It also reopened a road that runs past the US embassy in Delhi but which for several years has been blocked off for security reasons. Several Indian officials declined to meet with members of a visiting US delegation.
“It is despicable and barbaric,” National Security Adviser Shivshankar Menon told the Press Trust of India news agency.
The row follows the arrest last week in New York of Devyani Khobragade, India’s deputy consul general in the city, who has been accused of visa fraud and of making false statements on an application for her housekeeper to work for her in the US.
Indian officials said she was arrested and handcuffed last Thursday as she dropped off her daughter at school, then strip-searched and kept in a cell with drug addicts before posting $250,000 bail.
A spokesman for India’a foreign ministry failed to respond to calls on Tuesday but the Associated Press said a senior Indian official confirmed that the strip search had taken place. The US embassy has yet to comment.
Prosecutors in New York say Ms Khobragade, 39, claimed she paid her Indian maid $4,500 per month but actually paid her less than the US minimum wage. She has pleaded not guilty and plans to challenge the arrest on grounds of diplomatic immunity, her lawyer said last week.
India has reacted with fury to the way its official has been treated, saying Indian diplomats living abroad have for years taken their domestic workers with them and that host governments have had few problems with the issue. Most middle-class Indian homes will employ several domestic workers, often at very low wages.
“They treated her like al-Qa’ida had come to Manhattan,” said analyst and former diplomat KC Singh
Reports suggest the issue dates back several months to when Ms Khobragade’s domestic worker, Sangeeta Richard, requested permission to work for other people on her day off and then later failed to return home to the diplomat’s house.
Ms Richard’s Indian passport was subsequently revoked and she and her family were taken into custody. Subsequent to that, the US authorities have been investigating the circumstances in which she arrived in New York.
A senior member of India’s main opposition party said India should arrest gay partners of US diplomats living in India.
“My suggestion to the government of India is, the media has reported that we have issued visas to a number of US diplomats' companions. Companions means that they are of the same sex,” Yashwant Sinha of the Bharatiya Janata Party told reporters.
He added: “Now, after the Supreme Court ruling, it is completely illegal in our country. Just as paying less wages was illegal in the US. So, why doesn’t the government of India go ahead and arrest all of them?”
PS:"Posting" gay US diplomutts in Tihar among the rapists and queer folk would quickly bring the US to its senses. It was not too long ago that the US posted its gay ambassador to India,"Peter the Poof" Burlieigh,who also served in Sri Lanka.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/201 ... -escalates
A "senior Indian diplomat" that the government could retaliate against the gay partners of U.S. diplomats.
India removes barriers to U.S. embassy as anger grows over diplomat's arrest
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/ ... NC20131217
Narendra Modi, the prime ministerial candidate for the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party, and Rahul Gandhi, the scion of the Nehru-Gandhi family that leads India's ruling Congress party, both declined to meet the U.S. delegation.
"Refused to meet the visiting USA delegation in solidarity with our nation, protesting ill-treatment meted (out) to our lady diplomat in USA," Modi said in a tweet.
A senior member of Modi's socially conservative party, currently favorite to form the next government, said India should retaliate by putting partners of gay U.S. diplomats in the country behind bars. India's Supreme Court last week effectively ruled homosexuality to be illegal.
"The reason why they have arrested this Indian diplomat in New York is violation of the law of the land in the United States. Now the same violation is taking place wherever U.S. embassy official have obtained visas for their partners of the same sex," former finance minister Yashwant Sinha told Reuters.
"If American law can apply to Indian diplomats in New York, the India law can apply here," he said.
