A large number of people, including parents and other family members of Indians living in the United States, gathered with candles outside a major park in Hyderabad on Thursday evening to pay their tributes to the Indian engineer Srinivas Kuchibhotla who fell victim to hate crime in Kansas in US last month.
The candlelight vigil was organised by various organisations on the occasion of 33rd birthday of Srinivas on Thursday as a mark of protest against the rising hate crimes against Indian community in the US as well as the policies of US President Donald Trump and the silence of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the issue.
The programme at the Kasu Brahmanand Reddy Park in Jubilee Hills area of Hyderabad was organised by Telangana NRI Parents Association and All India Peace and Solidarity Organisation (AIPSO).
The participants held candles as well as posters decrying the incidents of attacks on the Indians in various parts of USA in the recent days.
They also carried large portraits of Kuchibhotla Srinivas as well as another Indian engineer Vamsi Reddy from Warangal in Telangana who was killed a few days before attack on Srinivas
The placards had slogans liked “Wake up India”, “Unite to Save NRIs in US”, “Stop Racism, Stop Hate Crime” and “Oldest Democracy! latest Trumpistan”.