Harsh Singh

Teacher shortages. Mental health crises. Federal dollars not reaching our kids. Our schools deserve better. 🗳️ Rakhi Israni for Congress — June 2. #RakhiForCongress #CA14 #Education #TeacherShortage #VoteJune2

The latest CBS Interview Segment. CA-14 hasn't had a new representative since 2013. It's time. We need new leadership. Not the career politicians that got us here. Join us. Vote by June 2. #RakhiForCongress #CA14 #VoteByJune2

@aishabbwahab will be a disaster for our district. it is because of people like her that people like Trump become president. She is divisive, in bed with special interest, and lacks the required qualification. We have to make our vote count in the primaries.

In defense of Indian 🇮🇳 democracy! During Prime Minister Narendra Modi most successful visit to Norway a minor incident happened. A Norwegian journalist demanded that the prime minister starts holding press conferences. She claimed that Indian democracy is in bad shape. May be its time to pause? May be its time to be a bit curious to the world’s largest democracy? Two weeks ago five Indian states and territories held elections. The turn out in the battlefield state of West Bengal was 94%. In the last local election in Norway it was 62%, in many European local elections turn out is below 50%. Can voting in massive numbers be a signal Indians trust their democratic process? In the same election BJP won big in Assam and West Bengal. It lost even bigger in Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Can this diversity be a signal that Indian democracy is reflecting the will of the people? The journalist referred to a democracy ranking putting India at 157 in the world, behind many dictatorships and deeply troubled states. When a ranking is so obviously contrary to common sense, why not ask critical questions to those making the ranking rather than demand that leaders shall comment on nonsense? I recommend Salvatore Babones book “Dharma democracy”. The book debunks convincingly the flawed methodology of these rankings. It was referred to a ranking claiming it’s very dangerous to be a journalist in India. Reality is that it is more dangerous to be journalist in the US and far more dangerous in the vast majority of other nations in the world. Let’s be real. India is not perfect. Of course there are incidents. India has a population the size of North America, South America and Europe combined. But India is much more peaceful than Europe or the Americas. That’s remarkable - given the ethnic, language and religious diversity of India and the many development challenges. Unless we consider democracy a form of government only suited for some very small, peaceful and homogeneous Western European nations, may be we should commend Indian democracy? India is the only major former UK colony which became and has remained a democracy. Its sometimes claimed that the Brits taught India democracy. If that was the case why isn’t Myanmar or Pakistan or the Gulf kingdoms democracies??? Reality is that Indian democracy is both homegrown and extraordinary successful.

A teacher in Hayward, a technician at Lawrence Livermore, a nurse in Fremont, they should be able to afford to live in the communities that they serve. #RakhiForCongress #CA14 #EastBay #HousingCrisis #AffordableHousing

.@YashicaDutt Temples don’t operate on “invitations." It’s open for anyone and everyone. Inner sanctums aren’t a VIP lounge for anyone’s caste or identity. Sacred spaces have rules, just like hospitals, courts, or even backstage areas at theatres. Temples are devālayas (residence of the deity), not touch-and-feel museums. And just for your assurance, no, there’s no “post-visit purification ritual”, that’s not a thing. A parallel: I’m not going to scream “untouchability” because I’m not allowed into an operating room. Access is based on function, not identity. Temples are open to anyone who comes for darshan and prayer in that spirit, not as a space to test limits or recast sacred boundaries as discrimination.

This is also a neat summation of how leftist hostility towards Hindus works in the diaspora. They regularly traffic in blatant propaganda, then when Hindu groups push back, they're attacked as Hindutva fascists. It's tiresome and predictable.

Wonderful to see Hindu kids speaking up in their schools against misrepresentation of their history and culture!

The American Dream made my family. Trump and broken politics are taking it away from the next generation. Today our first TV ad goes live across the East Bay. It's about my family. It's about yours. Watch and share. #CA14 #RakhiForCongress #AmericanDream #ImmigrantStory #EastBay #PoweredByPeople

@ind_thought @RakhiIsraniCA @mercnews @EastBayTimes Rakhi is a moderate, the extreme left has ruined the democratic party. I see Rakhi bringing in common sense politics to DC, which seems to be lacking these days.

@RakhiIsraniCA @mercnews @EastBayTimes You lost me there by going after Trump. Is there a middle ground you will embrace or do you feel everything under the current democratic leadership is perfect?!! Do you describe yourself as a moderate or a progressive?

To fight Trump, we must stop excluding people with purity tests and start measuring leaders by their ability to serve and deliver results. @mercnews @EastBayTimes

This is what good governance looks like. @RajSalwan is undoing horrible decisions of the past and most importantly listening to his constituents. The right turn on Fremont and Mowry will be back yeah!!!

@RajSalwan Thank you so much @RajSalwan. this is about good governance and i am proud to have voted for you!!!

Last night, we made it clear: we want to restore the dedicated right-turn lane at Mowry Avenue and Fremont Boulevard. This is about common sense. It’s about reducing congestion, improving traffic flow, and responding to what our community has been saying loud and clear. Good government means listening, fixing what is not working, and making practical decisions that improve daily life. We’re going to keep working to make Fremont move better for everyone. #FremontCA #TrafficSafety #GTD

@aishabbwahab is the worst choice for CA-14. She has wrecked havoc on housing, safety and the community. She is the reason people like Trump become president. CA-14 voters have common sense and have had enough of Wahab.

The East Bay is home. Every week brings new conversations, new community events, new neighbors joining the fight. This campaign is happening at your kitchen tables, in your community halls, on your sidewalks. Thank you for welcoming us in. 🧡 #RakhiForCongress, #CA14, #Home, #Fremont, #FremontCA, #UnionCity, #UnionCityCA, #NewarkCA, #DublinCA, #Livermore, #LivermoreCA, #Pleasanton, #PleasantonCA, #Hayward, #HaywardCA, #CastroValley, #CastroValleyCA, #SanLorenzo, #SanLorenzoCA, #Sunol, #SunolCA, #Ashland, #AshlandCA, #EastBay, #TriValley, #AlamedaCounty

I knew @aishabbwahab was cheap, but she seems to be stooping even lower. Covering your opponent’s signs? really!!! She was divisive and destroyed the district as a state senator now she wants to destroy the nation. CA-14 voters will not let that happen.

Wahab has been a failure as a state senator and wants to do the same in congress. This is her only way to be employed. she will be unemployed if she did not do this. It is time to fire her for good.

Former Indian cricketer Anil Kumble and his wife Chethana Kumble are seen promoting the beauty of Sanskrit by speaking it fluently in this video. It’s inspiring to see a sporting icon use his influence to highlight the richness of one of the world’s oldest languages. Wonderful!

Hindus for Human Rights (HfHR) is back at what they do best - elevating those who hate Hinduism and want it dismantled. PLUS glorifying homophobic and antisemitic folks like Pieter Friedrich, who has made a career out of hounding Hindu Americans who profess any pride in their faith or roots. @Hindus4HR not only supports such bigoted, incendiary and un-American rhetoric against a Hindu, they actually celebrate it. We highlight some of their actions and double standards in this thread. (1/n)

Honored to receive the endorsement of my friend @RajaForIl! As a senior member of the House Intelligence Committee and a champion for working families, Raja embodies what effective leadership looks like. He serves as a strong role model for me as I hope to match his commitment to results and accountability in Congress. #RakhiForResults #CA14

One of the unknown aspects of the brutal Portuguese rule over Goa, concerns its treatment of Hindu widows. Hindus are often lectured about how Christians saved Hindu widows from having to commit Sati. But the evidence shows the opposite - the overwhelming majority of Hindu widows in 16th c. Goa were not burnt at the altar, but instead desperately trying to survive cruel coercive tactics to convert by the Catholic Church. Whenever the man of the house died in Hindu households, the system in colonial Goa was designed specifically to push Hindu widows and daughters towards conversion by tying survival to religion. When a man died without a male heir, almost all of his property went to the Crown. This left the women with very little to live on. At best, the Hindu widows & daughters were allowed only certain movable goods, and later even those were capped. The result was immense hardship and poverty that kept them dependent. That hardship was then used deliberately by the Church. By 1559, the law made it clear that a Hindu widow or daughter could receive what she needed to survive ONLY if she agreed to convert and become Christian. If she refused, she lost her entire share in property, and it went to someone else in the family who was willing to convert and become a Christian! Imagine how cruel and insidious this policy was - it directly linked food, shelter, and security to conversion. The choice was sneakily framed as a voluntary choice, but obviously in reality it was a choice for the widows/girls between converting or being kicked out on the streets with nothing to survive on. The process was tightly controlled by the Church. So that even when a woman agreed to convert, she was forced to prove her “sincerity” to religious authorities. One can read between the lines and understand what kind of pressure that meant. The widows were completely vulnerable to sexual exploitation in their helpless condition. There were waiting periods and reviews, but these did nothing to protect the woman - they only increased the pressure. If she hesitated or refused, she risked losing everything. The Hindu widows who hesitated were defamed as having loose character. Many were molested and violated to submit. This led some of them to turn to prostitution as a last resort to survive because they had no other choice. At the same time, greedy vultures who were ready to convert could easily usurp the woman's property, creating a sordid web of competition and urgency around conversion. If nobody in the family would convert then the property would be used by the Church towards Christian "religious ends" In other words - this was one of the most oppressive forms of violent coercion through the system itself. The Christians didn't need to force conversion at sword-point because their law was doing all the work. By controlling the property and survival of Hindu widows and young daughters, the Catholic authorities ensured the women were left with no other choice. And to think we are fed BS lies about how the noble Christians swooped in and rescued Hindu widows from Sati. In reality they were using the most predatory and murderous laws to snatch away their rightful property & forcing our vulnerable Hindu widows and daughters to convert to Christianity - just to survive.