After Hillary Clinton’s bewildering fact-free assertion last month that Tulsi Gabbard is a Russian asset, many on the Left were rightly reminding us of Gabbard’s horrifying connections to India’s far-right government. But Gabbard isn’t the only Democratic primary candidate carrying water for Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and she’s unlikely to ever become president. Front-runner Joe Biden’s own ties to the extremist leader deserve far more attention.

The Intercept reported last month that Amit Jani, Biden’s director of outreach to Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (a broad category), is a passionate Modi backer. And he’s working for a candidate who, as vice president, was ardently in favor of closer US ties with Modi’s India: “Our goal is to become India’s best friend,” Biden said in 2015.

For anyone worried about the rise of murderous far-right movements around the globe, these relationships should be deeply troubling. As Jaya Sundaresh recently wrote in Current Affairs, when Modi was chief minister of the Indian state of Gujarat in 2002, he “presided over some of the worst anti-Muslim violence seen in India in the modern age.” He is known by religious minorities in India as “the butcher of Gujarat.” Before his 2014 election to prime minister, the State Department did not allow him to travel to the United States because of his complicity in these deadly 2002 riots. Under Modi, Kashmir, the only Muslim-majority state, has been living under a kind of military dictatorship. More than 1.9 million people in Assam, another Indian state, have been stripped of their Indian citizenship. Most of them are Muslim. The Modi government is building concentration camps for them. Hate crimes have dramatically increased.