The protest comes after the brutal June 15 border clash in eastern Ladakh’s Galwan Valley during which 20 Indi…Read More
NEW YORK: A large number of Indian-Americans chanting ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’ and other patriotic slogans staged a protest against China at the iconic Times Square here, demanding an economic boycott and a diplomatic isolation of the country for its aggression against India.
Indians living in New York and New Jersey states along with the officials of the diaspora organisation — Federation of Indian Associations (FIA) – raised slogans of ‘Boycott Made in China’, ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’ and ‘Stop Chinese Aggression’ among others.
The protesters, wearing face masks in view of the coronavirus pandemic, held placards that read ‘We salute our fallen heroes’.
Members of the Tibetan and Taiwanese community also joined the protest and raised slogans against China and called for an economic boycott of the Communist giant.
They also held placards that read ‘Tibet stands with India’, ‘Stop Chinese Abuse‘, ‘Justice for human rights, minority religions, Hong Kong’, ‘China out of Tibet’, ‘China stop crimes against humanity’ and ‘Boycott Chinese Products.’
The protest titled ‘Boycott China’ was organised on Friday by community leaders Prem Bhandari and Jagdish Sewhani.
“The India of today is different from the India of 1962. We will not tolerate the Chinese aggression and its international bullying. We will give a befitting reply to the arrogan