'Lord Hanuman...': Blinken invokes India, says diversity priority for Biden

Lord Hanuman featured in U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken's Diwali speech. Blinken highlighted the importance of religious freedom as a fundamental American value and informed them that a stolen statue of Lord Hanuman was returned to India. Union Minister G Kishan Reddy had earlier acknowledged the same and tweeted, "Under PM Modi's leadership, repatriation of our heritage continues. The idol mentioned by Blinken at the White House is a 500-year-old Lord Hanuman bronze statue that was stolen from a temple in Tamil Nadu. Watch this report for full information.

 
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