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File photo of Swaminarayan Temple in New York.
BAPS Swaminarayan Mandir in Melville, New York has been vandalized. The Consulate General of India in New York has lodged an objection regarding this. The Consulate has said that we have raised this issue with the American law enforcement and have demanded strict action against those who carried out this incident. The Consulate gave this information in an X post.
A footage of Swaminarayan temple is going viral on social media, in which it is seen that the road and signboard outside the temple have been vandalized using abusive language. The temple was vandalized before a prayer meeting was to be held in the afternoon.
PM Modi will visit Nassau near Melville on September 22 Melville is in Suffolk County on Long Island. It is about 28 kilometres from the 16,000-seat Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to address a major community event on September 22.

PM Modi will address a community event on September 22 at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Nassau County.
Hindu American Foundation demands- Homeland Security should investigate the matter The Hindu American Foundation said on X that the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security should investigate the attack, as Hindu institutions have recently received threats and a major Indian community event is scheduled to be held in nearby Nassau County later this week.
The foundation’s executive director, Suhag Shukla, said on X that it was hard to understand how someone could be so cowardly as to attack a Hindu temple to express hatred against an elected leader. The attack should be seen in the context of recent threats to Hindu and Indian institutions.
The California temple was attacked in January In January this year, a Hindu temple was attacked in California, USA. Khalistani supporters had written anti-India things in the Vijay Sherawali temple in Hayward, California. Khalistanis also wrote abusive words about Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the wall of the temple. Slogans like Khalistan Zindabad were also seen written.

The picture is of Vijay Sherawali temple in Hayward, California, on which anti-India things were written.
Swaminarayan temple was also vandalized in Newark Earlier on 23 December 2023, there was an attack on Swaminarayan temple in Newark. Regarding this, India’s Foreign Minister S Jaishankar had said – I have seen this news. We are concerned about this. Extremists and separatist forces from outside India should not get space. We have lodged a complaint with the US authorities. We hope that the right action will be taken in the matter.

The picture is of a Hindu temple located in Newark, California. Khalistanis had written anti-India slogans on it.
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