India, Jan. 2 -- After a group of US lawmakers wrote to an Indian envoy urging for "fair and timely trial" for activist Umar Khalid, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has taken a strong objection and alleged Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's link with the "anti-India" panel behind the letter.

The BJP was reacting to the letter written by eight US lawmakers to Indian Ambassador Vinay Mohan Kwatra urging India to grant bail and a free trial to Khalid, who is lodged in jail for five years in the 2020 Delhi riots case.

BJP leader Pradeep Bhandari said US Representative Jan Schakowsky, who was among the eight US lawmakers behind the letter, had a meeting with Rahul Gandhi, along with "anti-India" Ilhan Omar in 2024.

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