Pramila Jayapal

India strongly rejected US Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal's remarks concerning the country's electoral process on Friday, categorising them as "unwarranted, uninformed" and equivalent to interfering in the electoral practices of a fellow democracy. Responding to a question during a bi-weekly media briefing in New Delhi, Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal stated, "We find the remarks of the Congresswoman unwarranted and uninformed and tantamount to interfering in the electoral practices of a fellow democracy. This is an approach that undermines democracy itself." The official reaction followed expressions of concern by Jayapal regarding specific reports about names being removed from India's electoral rolls. The Democrat from Washington state posted on X, "I am deeply concerned about the actions of the Indian government to purge 130 million people from the voting rolls." Earlier on Thursday, Washington time, India's Ambassador to the US, Vinay Mohan Kwatra, f...