Environmental groups like Greenpeace and other international NGOs working in India had sought US government intervention after their funding came under increased scrutiny of the Modi Government, according to emails released by the Wikileaks.
The emails – hacked from the email account of John Podesta, who is the chairman of the Clinton Campaign – also indicates the global funding links of these NGOs, including those environmental groups opposing a massive mining project in Australia being undertaken by the Adani Group.
“Adani is very close to (Prime Minister Narendra) Modi -- so this will be a delicate diplomatic challenge,” Sergio Knaebel, grant director of the Sandler Foundation, wrote in an email to Podesta on May 27, 2015, months after he left the White House to be the Chairman of the Clinton Foundation.