"When I started to re-engage with my faith, Usha was very supportive," JD Vance recounted in an interview about his wife when he was running for vice president last year. As he won the elections, the Vance-Usha jodi became America's favourite interfaith love story. Until October 29 came and Vance, speaking at a Turning Point USA event, expressed his desire that his Hindu wife embrace Christianity.

What seemed an innocuous remark at an informal debate quickly spiralled into one of the biggest controversies of Vance's political career, with Indian Americans accusing him of hypocrisy and "Hindu-phobia".

WHAT VANCE SAID ON HIS WIFE'S FAITH

Vance's remark was seen as less about religion and more about pandering to MAGA's faith-first politics. The person whom Vance once called his

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