Should we send protest letters/ requests to Obama demanding the removal of this person? I have been reading in different groups about her clear connections with VHP.
What you all say? Aryan On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 9:57 AM, Bobby Kunhu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This appearded on the front page of today's HT. Demonstrates Sangh Parivars > efficiency. I was shocked and appaled. May be we should have a petitions or > somethinmg and ask diaspora and other friends in the US (Stop Funding Hate > Capmpaign, Common Cause, AID etc. ) to act fast to make sure that Sonal Shah > is not includedc in the final team and may be do more research on her past. > Being involved in the Gujarat earthquake to raise funds for VHP also is an > indirect involvement in the genocide that followed. > Here goes the story > ** > * > http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?sectionName=HomePage&id=c92bdef7-a366-47df-bf51-daae396caeec&MatchID1=4816&TeamID1=6&TeamID2=1&MatchType1=1&SeriesID1=1212&PrimaryID=4816&Headline=Obama+team+member%2c+Sonal%2c+has+VHP+links > * > *Obama team member has Sangh links* > > US President-elect Barack Obama may have cultivated a left-of-center image > for himself, but Sonal Shah, the Indian-American advisor in his transition > team, has well established rightwing leanings. > > The 40-year-old economist has been associated with the overseas activities > of the Sangh Parivar. She was a national coordinator of the Vishwa Hindu > Parishad of America campaign to raise funds for Gujarat earthquake victims > in 2001. > > Her father Ramesh Shah, a vice-president of the Overseas Friends of the > Bharatiya Janata Party (OFBJP), had campaigned for LK Advani in Gandhinagar > during the 2004 Lok Sabha elections. He had also briefly traveled with > Advani during his Bharat Udaya Yatra, countrywide election tour. > > Sonal's brother Amit and sister Rupal are now based in Ahmedabad, running a > voluntary organisation, indicorps. Its website says its aim is to "engage > the most talented young Indians from around the world on the frontlines of > India's most pressing challenges". > > "I returned to India eight years ago," Amit told *HT* before suddenly > deciding not to talk any further. An SMS from Rupal said "no comments from > here", and added that Sonal be contacted through email for any queries. > > A senior functionary of the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS), involved in > the global activities of the Parivar, said only Ramesh is associated with > its activities. "He works with the OFBJP and supports, among other things, > the Ekal Vidyalayas," the functionary said. Ekal Vidyalayas are > single-teacher primary schools run by the RSS with the aim of inculcating > Hindu values in children, mostly in tribal regions. > > The Shah family hails from Sabarkantha in Gujarat but Sonal was born in > Mumbai. Ramesh Shah moved to the US in 1970. Two years later, Sonal, Rupal > and their mother joined him in New York. The family later moved to Houston. > Sonal has worked as vice-president with Goldman Sachs and also in the US > Department of Treasury. Currently, she is with the global development team > of Google.org. > > Volunteers at the indicorps office in Ahmedabad were under instructions not > to speak anything. > > *(Inputs from Ahmedabad)* > > > Warmly > > > -- > Bobby Kunhu http://community.eldis.org/myshkin/Blog/ > > > > -- Book Port, Ground floor, Kurian towers, Banerji road, , kochi , Kerala, India- 682 018 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 0091 484-6530759, 0091 9746339846 www.bookport.in --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send email to greenyouth@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
