By Raleigh Steinhauer, Somerset.
Mayor Chris Kelly is correct in calling for Councilman Rajiv Prasad’s immediate resignation. Prasad has proven himself not only unfit to serve as a representative of the public, but a danger to the very public he was elected to serve. The Mayor is also right in his assertion that the issue goes further than Prasad.
It is evident from the emails that have come out and meeting minutes of the Human Relations Commission that many with political power in the Township, including current council members, knew what Prasad was doing and refused stop it.
In a July 29th email to his fellow Democratic council members Prasad accused the Facebook group known as the Tranquility Protection Alliance of Franklin Township of being racist against Asian Indians. In the email, Prasad even associated Tranquility with heinous violence against Hindu Temples across the country and suggested that Tranquility was on the verge of perpetrating similar acts in Franklin. Prasad went on in subsequent emails to label Tranquility “neo-Nazi racists” and a “hate and crime group,” and in an email to the Chief of Police requested that the FBI be called in to investigate the Facebook group and its founders.
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