Most of the non-resident Indians (NRIs), particularly in the United States, have been greeting the re-election of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2019 and their intimate relations and deep commitments towards their home country and its leader were strongly seen when Narendra Modi addressed the large gathering in the U.S. city of Houston last September in 'Howdy, Modi!' event that was organized by the Indian diaspora. 

Wealthy Indian minority living in the United States holds a record of offering rocking and magnificent receptions to Narendra Modi during his tenure and when Modi had visited the United States for first time after becoming Prime Minister in 2014, the Indians had offered a sumptuous and pompous welcome and the people flooded through the Madison Square Garden in New York and Houston had recorded with the similar style of welcome in last year where Modi was joined by US President Donald Trump.

However, it was months before Modi's government had started rolling out the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act in India and precisely, it has now become an Indian diaspora before and after CAA as some of the Indians who took part in the Howdy, Modi event had now torched their protests against the CAA as what it can be reported that the agitation spurred against CAA had hit the shores of the other side of world resulting to the birth of mixed reactions from the Indian diaspora living in the United States.

The reports say that last month, the members of the diaspora had staged demonstrations from Harvard to San Francisco and they condemned Modi's divisive identity politics. The protestors and critics of the diaspora had branded that the act would write the preface to belittle and to suppress the Muslims and would violate and disdain India's secular constitution. While speaking to the Reuters, Nidhi, an Indian American had said that if the diaspora fails to raise its voice against the act, it complicit the act.

Nidhi has immigrated to the United States when she was five and she had taken part in the protests and demonstrations against the citizenship act in Texas, one of the US states that had a large Indian population. The reports say that on Sunday, while India has marked its 71st Republic Day, the Indian diaspora had staged protests outside Indian diplomatic missions in the state of Texas and the protests had seen the presence of the strongest critics against the Modi government including students, religious minorities, and academicians.

Initially, these were people in the diaspora who greeted and cheered for Modi when he elected as Prime Minister in 2014 during which he proclaimed that his government would be working to transform India as an economic superpower and despite his re-election, the state of Indian economy has been deteriorating with high unemployment, severe unrest across the nation and increase in demand and the vein of agitation had poured in more unrest across the country over CAA amid the economic turbulence and insecurity. The protests against CAA had at least killed 25 people.

However, there were some of the counter-protests from the same Indian diaspora who pressed their strong support for Modi and they have hosted rallies in the support of the CAA, a similar kind of support that was observed across India. Reuters had quoted the assertion of Vijay Chauthaiwale, the chief of foreign affairs department of BJP and he said that the entire diaspora has been apparently supporting Modi and claimed that the minor demonstrations would not affect his popularity. The reports have revealed that the BJP has been engaging with the Indian diaspora through social media and underlining how the citizenship act would be benefiting the persecuted minorities from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan. 

On the other hand, most critics of Modi had stated that the corridors of his overseas support have been cracking down after the uncertain developments. The reports have highlighted that in line with Houston, nearly 15 cities including Washington, Atlanta, and New York had seen anti CAA protests on January 26th, 2020.