Washington: Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard has claimed that she had become a victim of "religious bigotry" and some media outlets were targeting her and accusing her supporters, who have Hindu names, of being Hindu nationalists. On Sunday Gabbard, the first Hindu elected to the US Congress, wrote while describing the campaign against her, supporters and donors ,that  "profiling and targeting of Hindu Americans and ascribing to them motives without any basis".

The 37-year-old had on January 11 announced that she would be running for the White House in 2020. Where, Gabbard pointed out to the accusation against her of being a Hindu nationalist. And she asked "Tomorrow will it be Muslim or Jewish Americans? Japanese, Hispanic or African Americans?"Gabbard said that “Her meetings with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India's democratically elected leader, have been highlighted as 'proof' of this and portrayed as somehow being out of the ordinary or somehow suspect, even though President (Barack) Obama, Secretary (Hillary) Clinton, President (Donald) Trump and many of her colleagues in Congress have met with and worked with him,"

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While  Gabbard said India was one of America's closest allies in Asia and is a country of growing importance in a critical region of the world. Gabbard had last September refused to be the chairperson of the World Hindu Congress in Chicago, citing her differences with its organisers who were seen close to the Vishwa Hindu Parishad.

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