VP to visit US to participate in 2nd World Hindu Congress while Tulsi Gabbard shuns

The Vice President of India, M. Venkaiah Naidu to visit United States of America on September 8-9, 2018 to address the 2nd World Hindu Congress being held in Chicago on the occasion of 125th Anniversary of Swami Vivekananda’s Historic Speech at the Parliament of the World’s Religions in 1893.

The Vice President will also participate in a programme organized by 14 Telugu Associations of the US at Hindu Temple of Greater Chicago. He will also participate in bilateral discussions with several world leaders, who are attending this event, on the sidelines of this Congress.

Meanwhile, Hawai-based Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard has said that she is not the Chairperson of the World Hindu Congress (WHC) 2018 and that she had already withdrawn from her participation in that event calling it a ‘partisan political’ event.

Here is the letter that Tulsi Gabbard wrote speaking about her participation:

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America’s most charismatic Hindu leader Tulsi Gabbard is not going to be present at the even. It was widely expected that she would lead from the front.

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