WASHINGTON: Harmeet Dhillon, a prominent Indian-American lawyer who is running for Republican National Committee (RNC) chairwoman, has alleged that she is dealing with bigoted attacks from her fellow celebration leaders because of her Sikh faith and asserted that she will not give up and continue to remain in the race for the top position.Dhillon, 54, a previous California Republican Party Co-Chair, is contesting versus powerful Ronna McDaniel for the position.
To be really clear, no quantity of dangers to me or my team, or bigoted attacks on my faith traceable straight to partners of the chair, will prevent me from advancing favorable change at the RNC, which includes new requirements of responsibility, openness, integrity, and decency, Dhillon stated in a series of tweets on Monday.
Dhillon said she got a variety of threatening tweets on Monday.
Threats incoming today.
Among Ronnas state chair supporters reacted to my message about Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr.s tradition by threatening me with consequences if I didnt make the irritating text messages from voters stop (nobody on my team has actually asked anyone to text members), she alleged.
Another person on my group got a threatening call from a $$$ RNC specialist for raising concerns about RNCs highest-paid suppliers.
Message provided was that my supporter would never work on a certain governmental project or for RNC if they didnt shut up, she said from her confirmed Twitter deal with Pnjaban.The Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairperson election will be hung on January 27.
Dhillon has received endorsements for the position of Chairwoman of the Republican National Committee versus McDaniel.
We need to decentralise the RNC out of DC and away from the lobbyists, the experts, and honestly the beholden politicians who determine the celebrations instructions at the expenditure of what our citizens want, she said.Last week, Politico newspaper in a report said that challengers have begun raising issues about her Sikh faith-- an advancement that has left some members of the committee unsettled.Dhillon told Politico that it is painful to learn that a handful of RNC members, in a close race for RNC chair, have actually selected to question my fitness to run the RNC by utilizing my devout Sikh faith as a weapon versus me.
Her challenger McDaniel, the incumbent, has actually condemned such an attack based upon faith.
We are the celebration of faith, family, and flexibility, and these attacks have no location in our celebration or our politics, McDaniel informed the newspaper.
As a member of a minority faith myself, I would never ever excuse such attacks.
I have pledged to run a favorable project and will continue to do so, she stated.