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munity made a call for all organi- agated as the symbol of hate in spread understanding of the true ers were: Dr Dattatreyadu Nori,
zations to come together on this the bill under consideration. Es- meaning of the symbol before it Nilima Madan, Nikunj Trivedi ,
cause and stand united to ensure, pecially, while considering that was distorted. Assemblywoman Animesh Goenka, Vimal Goyal,
either, the bill does not pass, or, the community awaits the Hin- Jenifer Rajkumar, the first and Dr Raj Modi, Dr Bindu Babu,
is amended appropriately with du festival of Deepavali to be a only young Hindu-American Dr Anila Midha, Uma Sengupta,
extreme detail and separation of National Holiday where use of elected to the NY State Legis- Vibhuti Jha, Dr Narinder Kukar,
Swastik from the Hooked Cross. Swastika will be misconstrued lature said, ‘I support you and Sunil Modi, Balaji Nagraj, Rad-
The sentiment was that if with a conflicting message. am in your corner’, which was ho Bathija, Narinder Kapoor,
Hitler used an ancient symbol in Senator John Liu, stayed on an inspiration for budding grass- Mukesh Modi, Dr Raj Bhayani,
wars against Britishers or Rus- for the meeting in its entirety roots community organizers and Pradeep Tandon, Dr Jay Sarkar,
sians, it doesn’t change the very and acknowledged that all as- leaders. Nathaniel Hezekiah III, Sadhvi Chandra Bharti, Venus
basic character and value of pects brought to attention in this Deputy Chief of Staff for Con- Bhasin, Dr Urmilesh Arya, Go-
Swastik as a religious symbol for meeting needed to be further gressman Gregory W. Meeks bind Munjal, Gunjan Rastogi,
many, and to fight any miscon- discussed with other leaders, es- commented that this zoom Dr Dheeraj Kaul, Veena Lamba,
ceptions of present-day politi- pecially the Jewish community meeting was informational and Dr Rakesh Sharma, Anju Shar-
cians in USA is imperative. and relevance of the bill revisit- truly helpful to be educated on ma, Dr Shashi Shah, Jasbir Singh,
Also, all naturalized individ- ed in a manner as to not hurt any this issue. Assemblyman David Sunil Hali, Dr Hari Shukla, Dr.
uals in America are primarily ethnic group and yet pass the Weprin, Manhattan Borough Thomas Abraham, Dr Bhavani
Americans yet often named In- right educational material and President Eric Adams, Oyster Srinivasan, Gayatri Murli, Dr In-
dian Americans or South Asians information for further consid- Bay Town Supervisor Joseph dranil Basure, Dr Neeru Bham-
for grouping one of a kind, be- eration. Saladino were represented by bri, Koshy O. Thomas, Krish
cause, it takes away from Indian On behalf of the Queens staff. Democratic Chief of Staff Rudra and many others.
community’s real issues, which Borough President the Deputy Anthony Lemma were present. The zoom meeting was well
are many others, besides, Swas- Borough President Rhonda Bi- Community leadership in managed with able support from
tika now expected to be prop- nda supported the movement to attendance among many oth- Beena Kothari and Jyoti Gupta.

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