The Curious Case of the Democratic Party of India https://caravanmagazine.in/politics/s-jaishankar-indian-embassy-covert-us-lobbying-article-370-kashmir URVASHI SARKAR 10 February 2023
Indian embassy in Washington engaged lobbying firm to run obscure entity to influence US lawmakers after abrogation of Article 370
On 1 December 2019, (https://efile.fara.gov/docs/6401-Exhibit-AB-20191204-11.pdf - filing under US law-FARA) Cornerstone Government Affairs began to work on behalf of the government of India. On the very same day they “acquired a new foreign principal”, the Democratic Party of India. (https://efile.fara.gov/docs/6401-Supplemental-Statement-20200228-6.pdf)