Kamala Harris`niece slammed for tweeting image depicting aunt as Durga

TIL Desk/World/Washington/ Hindu groups in the United States have sought an apology from Senator Kamala Harris’s niece for tweeting an ‘offensive’ image, which depicted the Democratic vice presidential nominee as goddess Durga.

The tweet has now been deleted by Meena Harris, 35, who is a lawyer, a children’s book author and the founder of the Phenomenal Woman Action Campaign, an organisation that works to bring awareness to intersectional social causes.

Your tweeting a caricature of the feminine divine, Maa Durga, with faces superimposed, deeply aggrieved many Hindus globally,’ Suhag A Shukla of the Hindu American Foundation tweeted on Monday. HAF, which represents sections of the Hindu American community, has issued a guideline for commercial use of images relating to the religion.

In the image, Kamala Harris, depicted as goddess Durga, was seen killing US President Donald Trump, who was depicted as the buffalo demon Mahishasura. The image also showed Democratic Presidential nominee Joe Biden as a lion, the ‘vahana’ (vehicle) of the goddess.