Caller attacks Indian CEO in US for criticising President Trump, asks to go to India
Ravin Gandhi, who was born and brought up in the US, has been asked by a caller to go back to India.
Gandhi, who is the CEO of a Chicago company, wrote an article in CNBC last week where he criticised the US President's response to the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Gandhi alleged the US President "cowardly" supported the white supremacists. The article reads: "I saw the president of the Unites States cowardly signal tacit support of white supremacists and Nazis. Every time Trump reworked his response in subsequent days, he dug a deeper hole that revealed more and more."
Gandhi has developed such a bitter taste of Trump after the Charlottesville violence that he said will not support the US President even if the country sees the brightest day. "The truth is, after Charlottesville and its aftermath, I will not defend Trump even if the Dow hits 50,000, unemployment goes to 1 percent, and GDP grows by 7 percent," he wrote in CNBC article.
"Some issues transcend economics, and I will not in good conscience support a president who seems to hate Americans who don't look like him" the CEO added.
Gandhi received the call from an unknown woman a day after his column was published. The caller in an aggressive manner asked Gandhi to return to where he is coming from and she meant India.
The caller's message for Gandhi was quoted by The Washington post: "Get your f------ garbage and go back to India and sell it over there. . . . Don't tell us about Donald Trump. Don't tell us about this country. . . . Go back to where the pigs live in India, and go clean your own G------ country. It's a filthy mess."
Gandhi said the message from the caller seemed to him "comical" after he heard it for the tenth time.
The CEO lives in Chicago with his wife and two children.
Gandhi's reaction to the whole incident was quoted by The Washington Post: "Guess what, I am where I came from,” said Gandhi, who lives in Chicago with his wife and two children."
In the article published by CNBC, Gandhi has clarified that though he opposed Trump in the Presidential election but later thought the US President might have some positives for which he got elected.
"When Trump won, I was flabbergasted. But unlike many of my progressive friends, I didn't get depressed. I wanted to understand; obviously the nation saw something positive about Trump's character and agenda that I (and so many others) had missed," Gandhi said.
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