A survey conducted by the New York Times reveals that 17% US citizens don't want Narendra Modi to visit USA. They asked the US Government not to allow him US visa.

"We don't want him to come to US. Already US is tackling with unemployment problems and another tech professional from India will take one more job. I request Obama not to give him the US visa," said Stewart Myer when New York Times asked him whether he would welcome Narendra Modi from India.

New York Times, a leading news paper in the US took a nationwide survey among 17,404 people after 65 Indian legislators (MPs) sent a request letter to US President Barack Obama favoring continuation of the US ban on Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.

Senior Correspondent of New York Times, Tim Warren said "We wanted to understand reactions of people in the US over issuing visa to Narendra Modi. We saw India's response which shows that 12% Indians (65 MPs out of 545 Lok Sabha seats) don't US access to Narendra Modi. We thought it would be interesting to know how many Americans really don't want him to come to the country. Response was tremendous, 17% straightaway said they don't want Modi in the US."

"What does he do? Is he a good sweeper or cleaner or driver? Whatever, if he is good in that work and charge less then possibly I would be ready for granting him US Visa otherwise no need for him to come here," said Laura James.

According to survey, 80% out of 17% who voted against US visa said that they fear of job losses to Indian IT professionals. 10% said that US requires blue collar labour urgently and if Modi is good in that work then only he should be allowed and rest 10% said they want to say no to him just because surveyor ask them the question.

Rest 83% out of total respondents said that they don't know who Modi is and where India is on the global map. They also started searching the meaning on 'secularism' on the internet.