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India rejects Navarro’s ‘Brahmins profiteering’ remark, calls it ‘inaccurate’

India rejects Navarro’s ‘Brahmins profiteering’ remark, calls it ‘inaccurate’

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India firmly rejected the remarks made by the White House trade adviser Peter Navarro on Brahmin by calling it inaccurate on September 5. 

India firmly rejected the remarks made by the White House trade adviser Peter Navarro on Brahmin by calling it "inaccurate". In a statement, MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said, “We have seen some inaccurate statements made by him. We reject them.” Navarro has defended the 50 per cent tariff imposed by the American President Donald Trump on India, saying, “Brahmins” are profiteering at the expense of Indian people.

What did Navarro say?

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On September 1, Navarro declared on Fox News that “Brahmins are profiteering at the expense of the Indian people,” mixing up centuries of history, culture, and economics in one confused statement.

Navarro’s comments came during his usual complaints about India’s trade policies. He called India “the maharaja of tariffs” and questioned why Prime Minister Modi aligns with Putin and Xi Jinping. But then he made his most revealing mistake, suggesting that Brahmins are somehow the business elite profiteering from trade with America.

American Hindus slam Peter Navarro

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A Hindu advocacy group in the United States, HinduPACT’s American Hindus Against Defamation (AHAD), has condemned the recent remarks of White House trade adviser Peter Navarro as “inappropriate and Hinduphobic” and demanded his dismissal from President Donald Trump’s team. The Hindu group objected to Navarro’s reference to caste and his “portrayal of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a sacred act of Hindu prayer”.

“It’s not a critique; it’s a colonial-era trope recycled to divide Hindu society and depict India as inherently unjust,” the group said while criticising Navarro’s comments about “Brahmins profiting at the expense of the Indian people”.

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