Petition to Deny the Application of Preeta Bansal

Ms. Bansal was instrumental in getting the Religious Freedom Commission to remove India as a "country of particular concern" and to recognize its bias in listing India as such following the Gujarat riots.  She ably put forward the Indian American and Hindu American perspective and was effective in pointing out India's commitment to religious pluralism and religious freedom.  At the time of the 2005 Modi visa denial, India's various investigative bodies, including its National Human Rights Commission and the courts, had determined that Modi WAS complicit in preventing the Gujarat violence -- the Indian Supreme Court reversed some of those findings only many years later.  Ms. Bansal very effectively served on the Religious Freedom Commission, and she was awarded the Mahatma Gandhi Award for Religious Pluralism from the Hindu American Foundation for her service.