Tulsi & BJP Scarf: Ignorant or Lying?

“I didn’t know what it was,” says Tulsi Gabbard about wearing BJP scarf

Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard is running for the Democratic Party’s nomination for President.

But during her first term in US Congress, Tulsi proudly wore the logo of a very different kind of political party — a foreign political party.

Not just any random foreign political party — but a violent, religious nationalist party from India that is responsible for pogroms against minorities.

Recently, Tulsi was questioned about it at a campaign event in New Hampshire:

“You wore a BJP scarf at this event?”

How did Tulsi reply?

“Somebody put something around my neck and snapped a picture without my really knowing what it was. I didn’t know what it was.”

Does her answer pass the truth test?

The top-left picture was taken in August 2014 in Atlanta, Georgia.

It was actually the second time that Tulsi was pictured wearing a BJP scarf.

The first time was in June 2014 in Los Angeles, California.

In LA, Tulsi wore a BJP scarf during the entire event — when she was speaking and while posing for pictures with multiple people….

…. including this man (pictured top right), Ravi Tilak, who is one of her biggest donors and a committee-member for the LA chapter of the Overseas Friends of the BJP.

In fact, on both occasions when Tulsi wore a BJP scarf, she was the keynote speaker at OFBJP banquets.

At the OFBJP banquet in Atlanta, after the BJP’s Foreign Affairs Cell Chief spoke — greeting Tulsi “for the third time”…

“Aloha, Tulsi ji. I have met you for the third time.”

… then Tulsi praised her audience for their hard work “supporting the BJP”:

“Many of you, offering your support to BJP, either here or traveling to India to help with the elections.”

So when Tulsi says she “didn’t know what it was” when she wore a BJP scarf (for the second time) while speaking at an Overseas Friends of the BJP event (for the second time) and posing with the BJP’s Foreign Affairs Cell Chief (who she was meeting for the third time), we can safely conclude that she’s lying through her teeth.