Thread by @FriedrichPieter

Ambassador, I have but claimed that your retirement came within months of a campaign demanding you be removed for meeting the #RSS chief. I leave it to the thinker to draw from the timeline what they will. Either way, sad your last act was legitimizing a fascist paramilitary.

https://twitter.com/usambkeshap/status/1521820181814722563

While we’re talking, @USAmbKeshap, please tell me why you met the #RSS chief. Are you unaware of the allegations surrounding the RSS? Are you unaware of its Hindutva ideology? Are you unaware the very chief you met is accused of personally sanctioning anti-Muslim attacks?

And, moreover, @USAmbKeshap, why did you share a screed written by a right-wing pro-Iraq war cheerleader to attack me? @mrubin1971 refuses to name the RSS-BJP's US affiliates, like HSS & OFBJP. Do you think it's okay for US politicians to associate with Hindu nationalist groups?

Like @CongressmanRaja keynoting an HSS event to celebrate the RSS's founding while standing in front of a garlanded picture of Golwalkar. @USAmbKeshap, what's your impression of actions which endorse Golwalkar? Should we just shrug them off?

But, back to your own #RSS meet, @USAmbKeshap. @hrw's @johnsifton compared it to if a US ambassador to Germany in 1933 had attended a Nazi rally at Nuremberg. What's Atul Keshap's take? How is a Human Rights Watch leader off-base about this?

countercurrents.org/2021/09/human-…

In conclusion, @USAmbKeshap, thanks for recognizing my US Constitutional right to question government officials. As you're no doubt aware, my line of questioning here would probably get me arrested in BJP-ruled India today. Even Tweeting critically of RSS could lead to arrest.

In fact, even elected officials in India aren't protected from retaliatory action for something as simple as Tweeting critically about the prime minister. Look at MLA @jigneshmevani80, arrested for Tweeting negatively about Modi. How do you feel about such incidents?

Final question, @USAmbKeshap: did the @StateDept and @SecBlinken directly sanction your #RSS meeting? Did they suggest it or was it your own idea? Did you clear it with your superiors before meeting?