A parliamentary panel on Tuesday raised the recent adversarial decisions taken by the US aimed at India with a visiting delegation of lawmakers from that country and the "silence" of the Indian-American diaspora over these developments came up during the discussion.

All five Congress members from the US are Democrats, who are in the opposition and have been broadly critical of US President Donald Trump's policies.

The chairman of the Standing Committee on External Affairs, Shashi Tharoor, said after the meeting that one of the points the panel members, who are drawn from the ruling as well as opposition parties, raised was why the Indian-American diaspora has been "so silent about all this".

Some members of the US delegation headed by Ami Bera, who is of Indian origin, shared the view.

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