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External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar canceled a meeting with US lawmakers this week after they declined to exclude Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal from the team that was to meet him, according to a Washington Post report.

Jayapal, the Indian-American Congresswoman, has relentlessly focused on Kashmir for some time and is playing a lead role in pushing a resolution that asks India to end all communications restrictions in Jammu and Kashmir.

Co-sponsored by Republican Steve Watkins, Jayapal, 54, the only Indian-American Congresswoman in the House of Representatives, introduced the resolution that nudges India to lift the communication clampdown, release political detainees and “preserve religious freedom for all residents” in Jammu and Kashmir.