"As in the past, the report is "deeply biased, lacks understanding of India’s social fabric and is visibly driven by vote-bank considerations and a prescriptive outlook. We therefore reject it," Jaiswal told a news briefing in New Delhi on Friday.
"This extends even to the depiction of our Constitutional provisions and duly enacted laws of India. It has selectively picked incidents to advance a preconceived narrative as well," Jaiswal said in a detailed response.
"The report also targets laws regulating financial inflows into India, suggesting that the border of reliance is unreasonable, [and it] seeks to question the need for such measures. On its own part, the United States has even more stringent measures and regulations and would surely not prescribe such solutions for itself," the MEA spokesperson claimed.
India Recalls Violations of Human Rights in US
"In 2023, India has officially taken up numerous cases in the US of hate crimes, racial attacks on Indian nationals and other minorities, vandalisation and targetting of places of worship, violence and mistreatment by law-enforcement authorities, as well as according of political space to advocates of extremism and terrorism abroad," Jaiswal recounted.