New Delhi, Nov. 10 -- India on Tuesday strongly hit back at the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), describing it as a "biased and ill-informed organisation" with a "blatantly political agenda", and questioned its credibility over its silence on attacks on religious places, hate crimes and racial abuse targeting the Indian community in the United States.

Addressing a press briefing, Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said that the USCIRF and its commissioners had consistently chosen to remain silent on such incidents in the US.

"As I have said before, the USCIRF is a biased and ill-informed organisation with a blatantly political agenda. It is particularly telling that the USCIRF and i...