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Hindu Policy Research and Advocacy Collective. Projects: @CHINGARIproject @HinduVoteOrg @AHADHindu @HinduPACT_HAHRI @theHinduLounge

[HinduPACT @HinduPACT]

#BREAKING Racist disruption of #Diwali celebrations by Jake Lang and Thomas Allen in Seattle, WA – showing signs saying “Deport all Dotheads” and “Stop Hindu Replacement of Christians.” We urge the Hindu community to stay vigilant and report any suspicious or hateful activity to local law enforcement. #StopHinduHate

@SeattlePD
@FBI @TheJusticeDept
@AHADHindu

https://t.co/1xPrgxaexM

[HinduPACT @HinduPACT]

#GovardhanPuja also known as Annakut, the festival commemorates Bhagwan Krishna lifting the Govardhan Hill to protect the people and cattle of Braj from torrential rains. Devotees perform #GauPuja and offer food Annkut or Chhappan Bhog to Krishna

[HinduPACT @HinduPACT]

#NutanVarsahabhinandan #HappyNewYear

Today is the New Year for those who follow the Vikram Samvat in the western part of India, especially Gujarat. We wish you a very happy, healthy, and prosperous new year.

[HinduPACT @HinduPACT]

On this day of #Diwali - we offer a quick look at why this day is so auspecious.

Happy #Deepavali to all Hindus. Please support HinduPACT by donating at:
https://t.co/xiHFTNGEEu

[HinduPACT @HinduPACT]

Here is a link to the video with racist disruption:

[HinduPACT @HinduPACT]

#BREAKING Racist disruption of #Diwali celebrations by Jake Lang and Thomas Allen in Seattle, WA – showing signs saying “Deport all Dotheads” and “Stop Hindu Replacement of Christians.” We urge the Hindu community to stay vigilant and report any suspicious or hateful activity to local law enforcement. #StopHinduHate

@SeattlePD
@FBI @TheJusticeDept
@AHADHindu

https://t.co/1xPrgxaexM

[HinduPACT @HinduPACT]

Best wishes for #Dhanteras

[HinduPACT @HinduPACT]

HinduPACT #Diwali Guide is here!!

Of course, the HinduPACT #DiwaliGuide covers the significance of Diwali, Diwali stories, games, how to draw rangoli, and some fun family games. However, we know you expect more from us. So we have included a guide to Diwali Advocacy, which covers where Diwali is a recognized holiday, how to talk about Diwali at community gatherings, and how to celebrate it at schools and workplaces.

We have also included extensive information on how to respond to criticism of Diwali. This guide not only helps you celebrate Diwali but also prepares you to confidently stand up for your cultural roots and values. Includes infographics, a printable pamphlet, checklists, and fillable advocacy forms.

Please download and share widely!!

https://t.co/BNqZO6zoGi

If you’d like to support our work!

To Download:

https://t.co/vICJSflMrl

#Diwali2026

[HinduPACT AHAD -American Hindus Against Defamation @AHADHindu]

How incredibly bigoted and ignorant to label a private #Hindi event as “take over.” These are the type of posts that caused Bucks County to flip parties after decades.

@RNC
#StopHinduHate
@HinduVoteOrg

[HinduPACT @HinduPACT]

Don't vote for a party. Vote for a candidate who aligns with your values and #AmericanHinduAgenda2026.

@HinduVoteOrg

See candidate info at: https://t.co/qSzvDM6YND
#YourVoteMatters #HinduVoteMatters

[HinduPACT @HinduPACT]

Remember, #HfHR is the organization that opposed #Hinduphobia bills. No wonder, even when a Hindu temple and worshipers are targeted, their founder can't talk about Hindu hate in absolute terms.

[Sunita Viswanath @SunitaSunitaV]

Thanks to @Hindus4HR Chicago chapter lead Rishab Chatty for speaking to the press about the escalating hate directed towards people of color and minorities in the US. The target this time was a Hindu Mandir, but the shooter’s hate was targeted broadly at all minorities. We need to band together — all of us — to counter this hate and keep each other safe. Solidarity is the best resistance to fascism.

[HinduPACT @HinduPACT]

Ah yes my child, this Indian-born professor-ji he is translating “Vishwa Guru” as “to rule the world!” But no no, true meaning is only to be the teacher of whole universe, the guiding light, not the conqueror-king. Understand? 🧐

[Irfan Ahmad @IrfanHindustan]

Prof. Dr Irfan Ahmad, a professor of Anthropology and Sociology at Ibn Haldun University, told Yeni Şafak in an exclusive interview on the sidelines of the 2nd International Conference on Bangladesh Studies that India’s regional ambitions extend beyond South Asia.

He argued that the Vishvaguru vision, which presents India as a global leader, reflects broader expansionist aspirations. Ahmad said that some Indians view neighbouring countries such as Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh as part of India’s civilisational sphere, despite their status as independent nation-states. He also linked these ideas to the historical concept of the “Greater India” project, promoted by some Hindu intellectuals in Bengal during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which portrayed India as a civilisational influence extending into parts of Southeast Asia.

Ahmad further argued that India’s “Look East” policy reflects efforts to strengthen ties with countries such as Sri Lanka, Thailand and Indonesia through shared civilisational and Buddhist connections. However, he highlighted what he described as a historical contradiction: although Buddhism originated in India, it has become a small minority religion in the country. He attributed this decline to the persecution of Buddhists, which he said forced many followers to seek refuge beyond India’s borders.

More with references below!

As early as 1927, historian R. C. Majumdar wrote Ancient Indian Colonies in the Far East. He followed it up, in 1944, with Hindu Colonies in the Far East. In his later formulation after Independence, Majumdar wrote about expansionof “Hindu colonies” and “Hindu colonization” at work “all over Asia,” particularly inSouth-East Asia. Majumdar’s idea of Hindu colonization was tied to the idea of “a Greater India.”

https://t.co/cKcebvNkt4

Sinha erases BK Sarkar’s religiously exclusivist, masculine and imperially expansionist ideas. Sarkar proudly wrote of ‘this all-round and manly culture that the people of India [Hindus] could organize vast schemes of colonization and conquest’ of ‘races’ outside of India. In early phase of the Christian era, he continued, ‘Hindu colonies were firmly established in Burma, Chinese territories … Cambodia’ through ‘military conquest,’ which ‘promoted the cultural expansion … of the Hindus.’

https://t.co/BoCcID5cxR

[HinduPACT @HinduPACT]

Happy #Dussehra. May this Dussehra bring victory of good over evil. May the ten-headed Ravana of Hindu hatred be destroyed. May our lives be filled with peace, joy, and prosperity.

[HinduPACT @HinduPACT]

Oh, so now you're rooting for the whole system to burn just 'cause the voters won't hand you the keys? Democracy not stroking your ego hard enough, so it's time for the Molotovs? Cute. Real mature.

[Sunita Viswanath @SunitaSunitaV]

Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel: "Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.”🙏🏾🪔✊🏾

[HinduPACT @HinduPACT]

@Yunus_Centre narrates to his global sponsors how he planned and deposed the #Bangladesh government, leading to #Hindu killings and temple demolitions. India, be cognizant - this is how #regimechange happens.

[Angelo Giuliano 🇨🇭🇮🇹 @angeloinchina]

Bangladesh Colour Revolution: India Should Pay Attention.

Yunus stood on a stage in New York with Bill Clinton and named Mahfuz Alam as the brain behind the revolution. His exact words: it was meticulously designed, it didn’t just come suddenly.
Two years later, Neha Bora >> the student leader the NYT and BBC are now calling the face of India’s protests >> puts out a video thanking Bangladesh’s Gen Z for showing them the way.
Same vocabulary. Same playbook.
People keep asking if there’s a foreign hand. Yunus answered that question himself, on camera, in front of Clinton.

India should really pay attention.

What is happening right now in India is exactly the same colour revolution playbook.

[HinduPACT @HinduPACT]

HinduPACT initiative @HinduVoteOrg Launches #AmericanHinduAgenda and the HinduVote Platform 2026 to mobilize a decisive civic voice on safety, representation, and religious freedom

Press Release:
October 16, 2026

HinduVote, an initiative of HinduPACT, today announced the launch of the American Hindu Agenda 2026 and the HinduVote 2026 platform at https://t.co/2v6OJw3KnJ, marking the fourth edition of its biennial civic engagement campaign following 2020, 2022, and 2024.

Washington, DC, 2026 — HinduVote 2026 begins from a simple democratic premise: American Hindus are not a symbolic constituency, but a serious civic community whose votes can shape close elections and whose concerns deserve explicit recognition from candidates at every level of public life. Through the American Hindu Agenda 2026 and the HinduVote 2026 candidate engagement platform, HinduPACT invites voters and public officials alike to engage with a clear set of issues central to Hindu Americans, including temple security, equal treatment under civil-rights norms, religious liberty, and fair representation in public institutions.

This year’s launch carries added urgency. In light of the recently failed mass shooting threat connected to Sri Venkateswara Swami Balaji Temple in Palatine, IL, and an attack on the Shree Swaminarayan Vadtal Dham Hindu Mandir in Richmond Heights, Ohio, questions of safety and security are no longer abstract. They are immediate civic concerns. Across the United States, Hindu temples are not merely places of worship. They are religious, cultural, and educational anchors for families, seniors, youth, and small-business communities. When those institutions face threats, the issue is not only public safety, but the full and equal exercise of First Amendment freedom.

In the past three weeks, HinduPACT representatives have visited temples and Hindu communities in more than 15 key states, and additional grassroots outreach is underway to support voter registration, civic education, and wider awareness of the American Hindu Agenda 2026. The purpose is practical and constitutional: to ensure that both voters and candidates understand the issues that matter to Hindus, and that candidates are prepared to commit to them publicly. In closely contested districts and states, that conversation can prove decisive.

The broader national context makes this effort timely. The FBI’s hate crime reporting has repeatedly shown that anti-Hindu bias remains a real feature of American public life, and Hindu institutions have increasingly had to think in terms once reserved for more visibly targeted communities: security planning, community vigilance, and direct engagement with elected officials. An unprecedented exhibition of Hindu hate has compounded the fear that has gripped the Hindu community. A mature democracy does not ask a faith community to remain civically passive while its concerns are minimized. It asks candidates to listen, respond, and lead.

Surinder Dhar, Vice President of HinduPACT, and lead of the HinduVote initiative said,

“HinduVote 2026 is about translating the presence of American Hindus into effective democratic participation. Our community contributes deeply to this country, yet too often our concerns, especially temple security, anti-Hindu hatred, and equal respect in public policy, are treated as peripheral. They are not peripheral. In many close races, Hindu voters can make the difference, and this year voters will rightly ask which candidates understand the safety, dignity, and constitutional rights of our community.”

Ajay Shah, Founder and Executive Chair of HinduPACT, added,

“The American Hindu Agenda 2026 is a civic instrument, not a sectarian one. It asks candidates to engage with real issues affecting Hindu Americans with seriousness, clarity, and accountability. HinduVote has grown with each cycle because our community understands that representation follows organization. When Hindu voters are informed, registered, and united around core concerns, they become impossible to ignore.”

The American Hindu Agenda 2026 asks the candidates to:

· Support legislation to condemn Hinduphobia and anti-Hindu bigotry.
· Support an FBI investigation to determine systemic causes and culprits who have vandalized Hindu temples and Mahatma Gandhi statues across the US
· Provide compassionate support for dependent children who are legal and documented and lose their legal immigration status when they turn 21, as they wait for permanent residency.
· Support merit-based educational and occupational opportunities and the verdict in the “Students for Fair Admissions vs. Harvard” case
· Hold religious theocracies like Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Bangladesh that egregiously abuse religious minorities accountable, and withhold their US aid. Appoint Hindu representatives in USCIRF and other faith-centric agencies
· Facilitate the repatriation of stolen Hindu artifacts from museums and private collections to their countries of origin through legislation and enforcement.
· Promote a multifaceted partnership with India, a democratic ally, without interference in its sovereign rights.
· Support free speech for all groups on university campuses. Defund academic departments and academicians that actively promote Hindu hatred.

The HinduVote 2026 platform includes tools for voter education and candidate engagement, including the HinduVote 2026 Candidate Questionnaire and the American Hindu Agenda 2026. Together, they are designed to strengthen a confident, informed Hindu civic voice in the United States, one grounded in democratic participation, public safety, and equal citizenship.

About HinduVote:

HinduPACT’s HinduVote initiative promotes universal dharmic values in electoral politics. Driven by the American Hindu agenda, HinduVote focuses on voter and candidate education and legislative issues. HinduVote conducts voter registration, awareness, and get-out-the-vote campaigns in partnership with community organizations and temples. HinduVote has built a state-of-the-art technology platform to support multidimensional candidate evaluation. Visit https://t.co/NFxz12VNMn

#TempleSafety #StopHinduHate

[HinduPACT @HinduPACT]

The suspect in the thwarted #AuroraIL temple attack.

[HinduPACT @HinduPACT]

#Breaking #PalatineIL white supremacist is caught planning attack on #HinduTemples. @FBIDirectorKash Please investigate these systemic targeted #HinduHate incidents. This is one of the key items on @HinduVoteOrg #AmericanHinduAgenea2026 We urge temple management to stay vigilant. @AHADHindu

https://t.co/NydPGJfX2A

[HinduPACT @HinduPACT]

Gun jammed!

Jammed rifle prevented an apparent mass murder plot at worship center in #PalatineIL near Aurora

[HinduPACT @HinduPACT]

@UNHumanRights has not a word to say about student protests in #France— this is not #HumanRights it’s hypocrisy and targeting India because it has a #Hindu majority. We are glad that the US has stopped its voluntary contribution to this biased body. What is @PMOIndia waiting for?
@HinduPACT_HAHRI

[UN Human Rights @UNHumanRights]

#India: We are concerned by reports of mass detentions of demonstrators, protest leaders, members of civil society organisations, lawyers and journalists, before and during today’s large-scale demonstrations in Delhi.

We call on the authorities to ensure that the right to peaceful assembly is fully respected and fulfilled.

https://t.co/tqrQyZoXBJ