{"id":8308,"date":"2009-10-05T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-05T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/10\/05\/hindu-democrats-inject-hindu-values-into-us-politics\/"},"modified":"2009-10-05T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-05T12:00:00","slug":"hindu-democrats-inject-hindu-values-into-us-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/10\/05\/hindu-democrats-inject-hindu-values-into-us-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Hindu Democrats&#8217; Inject Hindu Values Into U.S. Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiawest.com\/readmore.aspx?id=1400&#038;Sid=1 \">www.indiawest.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>UNITED STATES, August 20, 2009: A Democratic Party activist and a U.S. Army soldier currently deployed in Afghanistan have co-founded Hindu Democrats, a Virginia-based political action committee aiming &#8220;to mobilize the Indian American bloc in the United States&#8221; to support Democratic Party candidates through the &#8220;representation of Hindu American values in American politics.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hindu Democrats executive director and co-founder Bharat Krishnan, a junior at American University in Washington, D.C., told India-West that his fledgling organization &#8220;respects the separation of church and state as one of the bedrock principles&#8221; of the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, he said, &#8220;Religious organizations have always sought political representation &#8211; the great thing about America is that there is the opportunity to form many of these organizations to make sure that no one organization wields too much power.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The organization&#8217;s co-founder, Rajiv Srinivasan, is a 2008 graduate of West Point currently in the U.S. Army in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.indiawest.com UNITED STATES, August 20, 2009: A Democratic Party activist and a U.S. Army soldier currently deployed in Afghanistan,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}