Indian-descent Hindu member of the House of Representatives, Raja Krishnamoorthi, has asked the US Senate to confront candidate for secretary of state Marco Rubio about anti-Hindu violence in Bangladesh at the hearing.
"As targeted violence against Hindus and other minorities continues amid the disorder in Bangladesh, I urge members of the Senate's Committee on Foreign Relations to address this crisis directly during the upcoming hearings to confirm Senator Rubio as the next U.S. Secretary of State," Krishnamoorthi said Thursday.
He said that through publicly conferring on the turmoil in Bangladesh, Senator Rubio must reaffirm the incoming Administration's position on this issue and pledge concrete action steps to combat anti-Hindu violence in Bangladesh.
Rubio's confirmation hearing will take place sometime after January 20, when President-elect Donald Trump will take the oath of office to start his second term.
Among those cabinet nominations of Trump's regarded to be the safest is Rubio who happens to be a long-yeared experience member of US senator as well as foreign policy chops as one of the leading members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He is likely to get the nod from his fellow senators: Republicans and Democrats alike.
Anticipatingly, Rubio will take a strong stance on Bangladesh on account of the already taken position by his master boss, the newly incoming President, when he posted on X, "I strongly condemn the barbaric violence against Hindus, Christians, and other minorities who are getting attacked and looted by mobs in Bangladesh, which remains in a total state of chaos."
The Hindu-American community has been concerned over reports of anti-Hindu violence in Bangladesh after the fall of the Sheikh Hasina government.
Krishnamoorthi is one of four Hindus in the US House of Representatives, joining Pramila Jayapal, Ro Khanna and Shri Thanedar. Their number will grow when the next Congress comes into being with Suhas Subramanyam, elected last November from Virginia.
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