A coalition of Indian American activists is vowing to stage a protest at the upcoming Asian American Hotel Owners Association annual convention if it does not drop its plans to have Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as its chief guest. No major Indian American community organization, however, has joined the protest.

"It's a morally wrong decision and doesn't make economic sense either to invite a man such as Modi to speak to the future of Asian American business," asserted Angana Chatterji, a member of the newly formed Coalition Against Genocide, and an associate professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the San Francisco-based California Institute of Integral Studies.

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