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109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 156
Condemning the conduct of Chief Minister Narendra Modi for his actions 
to incite religious persecution and urging the United States to condemn 
all violations of religious freedom in India. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 15, 2005
Mr. CONYERS submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
Committee on International Relations 
RESOLUTION 
Condemning the conduct of Chief Minister Narendra Modi 
for his actions to incite religious persecution and urging 
the United States to condemn all violations of religious 
freedom in India.
Whereas India is the largest democracy in the world, with a 
Constitution that protects religious freedom and the fun-
damental rights of all citizens; 
Whereas the United States appreciates the commitment of 
India’s present government to preserving pluralism and 
religious diversity in India; 
Whereas Narendra Modi is the Chief Minister of Gujarat, a 
Western Indian state, and a member of a Hindu religious 
party known as the ‘‘Baratiya Janata Party’’ (BJP), who
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is responsible for the law and order and all administra-
tive work within the Gujarat state; 
Whereas the United States Commission on International Reli-
gious Freedom (USCIRF) has confirmed in its May 2004 
report that since the political party of Chief Minister 
Modi took office in 1998, there have been ‘‘hundreds of 
attacks on Christian leaders, worshipers, and churches 
throughout India,’’ including killings, torture, rape and 
harassment of church staff, destruction of church prop-
erty, and disruption of church events; 
Whereas the USCIRF has confirmed in its May 2004 report 
that the state government in Gujarat led by Chief Min-
ister Modi has been widely accused of being reluctant to 
bring the perpetrators of the killings of Muslims and 
non-Hindus to justice; 
Whereas the Supreme Court of India has reported that those 
arrested in connection with the bombings and retaliatory 
attacks on Hindus in India have claimed that they car-
ried out their actions ‘‘in revenge for the state-assisted 
killings of Muslims in Gujarat’’; 
Whereas the Supreme Court of India has admonished Chief 
Minister Modi and other government authorities in the 
State of Gujarat for their complacency and actions in 
connection with the attacks on non-Hindu groups; 
Whereas India’s National Human Rights Commission, an of-
ficial body, found evidence of premeditation in the 
killings of non-Hindu groups, complicity by Gujarat state 
government officials, and police inaction in the midst of 
attacks on Muslims and Christians in India; 
Whereas the United States Department of State has dis-
cussed in one of its reports the role of Chief Minister
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Modi and his government in promoting attitudes of racial 
supremacy, racial hatred, and the legacy of Nazism 
through his government’s support of school textbooks in 
which Nazism is glorified; 
Whereas the United States Department of State has found 
that Chief Minister Modi revised the text of high school 
social studies textbooks in Gujarat schools to describe the 
‘‘charismatic personality’’ of ‘‘Hitler the Supremo’’, and 
the ‘‘achievements’’ of Nazism at great length, while fail-
ing to acknowledge the Nazi extermination policies, the 
concentration camps, and the religious persecution that 
occurred under the Nazi regime; 
Whereas in section 2(2) of the International Religious Free-
dom Act of 1998 (22 U.S.C. 6401(2)), Congress made 
the following finding: ‘‘Freedom of religious belief and 
practice is a universal human right and fundamental 
freedom articulated in numerous international instru-
ments, including the Universal Declaration of Human 
Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political 
Rights, the Helsinki Accords, the Declaration on the 
Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and Discrimina-
tion Based on Religion or Belief, the United Nations 
Charter, and the European Convention for the Protection 
of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms’’; and 
Whereas such conduct by such a high ranking foreign official 
undermines 
internationally 
recognized 
fundamental 
human rights and the directives of Congress under the 
International Religious Freedom Act of 1998: Now there-
fore, be it
Resolved, That the House of Representatives—
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(1) condemns the conduct of Chief Minister 
Narendra Modi for condoning or inciting bigotry and 
intolerance against any religious group in India, in-
cluding people of the Christian and Islamic faiths; 
and 
(2) urges the United States—
(A) to condemn violations of religious free-
dom; and 
(B) to promote and assist other govern-
ments in the promotion of the fundamental 
right to freedom of religion.
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