Those who find recent utterances of Raga in America ridiculous, may be oblivious of the fact that he is only maintaining` thentradition. Recall a more ridiculous exercise by entire opposition from both the houses approaching the then president of America ( letter dated November. 2012 made public on 20th July 3013). an extract from the report published in Hindu:

Sixty-four members of Indian Parliament (25 from the Lok Sabha and 39 from the Rajya Sabha) petitioned U.S. President Barack Obama to advise the State Department not to reconsider its 2005 decision to deny Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi an entry visa because of his association with the 2002 riots, in which more than a thousand people, many Muslim, were killed.

Be sure, such desperate exercises serve Modi better and add to their own disaster.