CSE Chief Sunita Narain hits out at Richard Verma for 'leaving' her out of Time's Influential List congratulatory message
Narain asked the US envoy if he did not include her name because of her critical stance against US government on climate change.
The CSE chief and environmentalist Sunita Narain, who was listed among six other Indians in the Time Magazine's list of 100 most influential people, called out on the US Ambassador to India Richard Verma when he did not include her in the congratulatory message.
Richard Verma on Friday posted a tweet congratulating six of the seven Indians on the Times list including RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan, tennis player Sania Mirza, Microsoft CEO Sundar Pichai, actress Priyanka Chopra and Flipkart founders Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal. However, the situation soon became uncomfortable when the seventh person named on the list, Sunita Narain asked Verma if he had left her out of the message due to her critical views against the US government on climate change.
Verma tweeted:
Sunita Narain replied to Verma's post with a tweet:
The Center for Science and Environment (CSE) in a report titled 'Captain America' had taken a critical stance against the US government and its consumerist tendencies.
Verma soon replied to Narain's post saying that his post did not intend to contain the complete list. He tweeted: