Disappointed at the decision of Wharton India Economic Forum (WIEF) to cancel its invitation to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi for delivering a keynote address, his supporters today launched a campaign to lodge their protests against the decisions.
The supporters, under the banner of ‘Americans for Free Speech’, in a mass e-mail asked people to write to the top management of Wharton School, America’s top business school, and the University of Pennsylvania against the decision taken by the WIEF to rescind its invitation to Modi.
The e-mail contains contact details and phone numbers of more than a dozen officials of WIEF and the Wharton School.
While the announcement is yet to be made public, the promoters of the campaign said that a group of distinguished community leaders and prominent University Professors in the US is working on a memorandum to be submitted to Wharton for “violation of First Amendment” of the Constitution, “stifling free speech” and “pandering” to far left.
The group is also planning to hold a peaceful protest outside the venue of the annual student-run India-centric conference hosted by the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania on March 23. The organisers of the campaign said their purpose is to make the University and the Wharton School aware that their decision has not gone down well among the Indian Americans, and corporate sector of the country.
Meanwhile, in a related development, the Wikipedia page of the Wharton India Economic Forum today appeared to have been compromised as the language written explaining it and the annual event was far below its standard, one-sided and seen to be “angry” at the Wharton’s decision on Modi.
Wikipedia’s press office did not respond to a PTI email seeking clarification on its content.
Simultaneously, at least two panelists on WIEF told PTI, requesting anonymity, that they have been received several calls from people, mainly Indian-Americans, asking them to withdraw their names from the annual event in protest against the Wharton’s decision on Modi.
Both the panelists requested that their names not be made public, and also refrained from sharing the names of the people or groups who are asking them to pull out from the annual event.
“I am not. The prestigious event is being organised by students. Even though I do not agree with their decision, I do not want to pull out and cause problems for these students — they are either Indians or Indian-Americans?” one of the panelists said.
Keywords: Wharton, Narendra Modi, Americans for Free Speech, violation of First Amendment of US Consitution
Comments:
Improper action by Wharton against the principles of Free Speech in cancelling Narendra Modi's speech. He has been elected 3 times and has not been found guilty of any thing. He has made Gujrat the best state in India.
Hindu are known as having slave mentality . Ruled first by few muslim then
british . Only few thousand muslim invaded indian But They were successful in
converting our poor and uneducated Hindus to islam by giving them book costing
Rs 50 to each to follow or die . These converts to islam are now used by saudi to
destroy all nation within.
Saudis islam is so successful in converting and making them enemy of own people
and nation ,today we have 1.3 billions converts in 55 nations all ready to die and
destroy . Our Hindus now more then 500 millions as muslim are treat to world and
also themselves.
Some hindus not converted to islam are having a slave mentality, they will do
anything for money and position Like our Our PM in INdia they are supporting
Gandhi dynasty to survive and flourish on the cost of their own carrier and
prestige.
Three professors fall in this categories and all who are attending and presiding fall
in to salve mentality. There are many like these in USA .
USA continues to insult India. Many prominent Indians were body searched in US airports.Now comes this ignominous insult. USA will BALKANISE (Dismember)INDIA for India's role in the Cold War and NAM. Pakistan was ,is and will be the BULWARK OF USA in South Asia and BEYOND.
WHY MODI ? WHY NO PROTEST ON THE US VISITS OF NETANYAHU
People have double standards in America especially the Muslims; if they really care about human rights of Muslims why no one has never protested for the on going genocide of Palestinian Muslim by Israeli Leaders and Military. They should have protested on numerous visits of Israeli Prime Ministers like Olmert & Netanyahu to USA who gets a Hero’s welcome in both houses of US Congress. It is a universal truth all Israeli Prime Ministers including Netanyahu is directly responsible for giving orders to Israeli Military to kill unarmed Palestinian children, women, aged and young every day in their own country.
I am not an admirer of Modi or BJP; slave to Zionist/Israeli’s and have mortgaged their integrity and brains to them. But Modi is not involved in killing of any minority on day to day basis. 2002 was an unfortunate year for both Muslims and Hindus of Gujrat and unfortunately there were more Muslim casualties. To blame Modi directly for that is not right because he never ordered like Netanyahu or Prime Ministers before him to kill Muslims. More over after this incident no incident of similar nature has taken place under Modi as Chief Minister of Gujarat . Modi is democratically elected Leader of Gujarat and represents more than 60 million people and Muslims account for more then 6 million which is more than the 1.85 million Muslim population of Israel.
If Israeli Leaders like Netanyahu responsible for killing Palestinian Muslims on day to day basis can visit USA freely why can’t Modi who is not killing any one on day to basis; can visit USA or be a key note speaker in a University via Satellite?
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