🇮🇳 🇺🇸 More Than 1,000 Americans Call on U.S. to Deny Visa to Hindu Nationalist Leader More than 1,000 people across the United States have urged Secretary of State Marco Rubio to deny or revoke a visa for Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat ahead of his scheduled August 29 appearance at Madison Square Garden, according to the Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC). The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom recommended visa restrictions and asset freezes targeting RSS leaders in March, citing the Hindu nationalist organization’s involvement in “acts of extreme violence and intolerance” against religious minorities. Bhagwat was also the RSS general secretary during the 2002 Gujarat massacres. Human Rights Watch named the RSS among the groups “most directly responsible” for the anti-Muslim violence, which killed some 2,000 people. “Mohan Bhagwat does not represent Indian Americans, and Madison Square Garden should not present him as though he does,” IAMC President Mohammed Jawad said. The group is also asking the venue to cancel the event and New York officials to condemn it.