WASHINGTON \u2014 Chief White House strategist Steve Bannon, who is an avid reader of the Gita and well versed in Hinduism, wants a deeper relationship with India, an Indian American donor of President Donald Trump has said.
\n\u201cContrary to the media’s portrayal of (Bannon) being alt right and racist, he is totally the opposite. It’s 180 degrees. He is firm in his views. He is an avid reader of Gita, dharma, Hindu philosophy, India and (Prime Minister Narendra) Modi,\u201d Chicago-based Shalabh ‘Shalli’ Kumar, founder and head of the Republican Hindu Coalition, told Indian reporters during his latest visit to Washington, D.C.
\nBannon, Kumar said, \u201creally appreciates what is happening in India under Modi’s leadership\u201d and in general the United States where the country should go and how to reverse its fortunes from a decline in living standards, economy and defense, to have a reversal.<\/p>\n
\u201cSteve Bannon is going to play a major role. He is quite direct. He is not a politician or a diplomat. I describe him as Gen. Patton of today,\u201d said Kumar, who added he regularly meets the chief White House strategist, the last time being about a month ago.
\nBannon, said to be the most powerful individual in the Trump administration, believes that Hinduism is a very peaceful religion and Hindus are very peaceful and tolerant people, Kumar said.
\n\u201cHe is happy about the assertion of Hindus through this particular (Trump) campaign. He was a major player in organizing the Republican Hindu Coalition rally on Oct. 15,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe is a pretty good scholar on Dharma,\u201d Kumar said, adding that Bannon’s knowledge about Hinduism is self-read from books.
\n\u201cHis views are identical to RHC on India-U.S. relationship that they should be the best allies. There is every reason for U.S. and India to be best allies,” he asserted.
\nBannon, he said, has a very positive view of Modi, who is taking India on the path of development and is making attempts to get rid of bureaucracy in India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
WASHINGTON \u2014 Chief White House strategist Steve Bannon, who is an avid reader of the Gita and well versed in Hinduism, wants a deeper relationship with India, an Indian American donor of President Donald Trump has said. \u201cContrary to the media’s portrayal of (Bannon) being alt right and racist, he is totally the opposite. It’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52043"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}