Kshama Sawant, a former member of the Seattle city council who had worked to pass a ‘resolution’ against the Indian government’s changes to the Citizenship Amendment Act, has shared on X that she has been denied a visa to visit her mother in India, indicating that the visa denial may be related to her anti-India activities.
“India’s PM Modi & the BJP government are denying me a visa to see my ill mother…” Sawant posted on X. Spreading total lies on the CAA, she claimed further, “Modi & the BJP have waged sustained attacks on workers, farmers, Muslims, and other oppressed groups in India, including with the anti-Muslim, anti-poor CAA-NRC law, which denied citizenship to millions.”
India's PM Modi & the BJP government are denying me a visa to see my ill mother.
— Kshama Sawant (@cmkshama) February 1, 2025
I’m not alone. Modi has retaliated against other activists & journalists, denying or revoking entry into India.
Sign the petition. Urge Modi to stop this retaliation. https://t.co/pnLOLW5IHb
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The CAA rules brought by the Modi government never denied anyone citizenship or proposed any changes to snatch anyone’s citizenship, as falsely claimed by Kshama in her post. The CAA was about granting citizenship to the persecuted minorities from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh who were already living as refugees in India.
Kshama has also been notorious for other ‘resolutions’ during her sting as a council member in Seattle. In 2023, she had brought another resolution that singled out Hindus only for additional legal scrutiny over alleged ‘caste’ based discrimination.
