KARACHI: The White House strongly denounced the online harassment of a reporter who questioned Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on religious minorities’ rights during joint press conference with US President Joe Biden in Washington last week, Dawn.com reported on Tuesday. Modi responded to the question in Hindi by saying, “In India’s democratic values, there is absolutely no discrimination, neither based on caste, creed, age, nor any kind of geographic location. And as President Biden also mentioned, India and America, both countries, democracy is in our DNA. The Hindustan Times report said that Siddiqui had since encountered “online trolling on various social media platforms”. The reporter at the briefing noted that Siddiqui had been subjected to “intense online harassment from people inside India”, including some politicians with links to the BJP-government, asking for the White House’s reaction to this.

Source: Wall Street Journal June 28, 2023 02:07 UTC