United States Hindu Alliance (USHA)

The United States Hindu Alliance (USHA), is a Norcross, Georgia based Hindu nationalist organization and claims to be “a grass roots, non-partisan, non-profit organization of Hindus in America to protect and promote the collective interests of Hindus worldwide.”

The group was formed by top Hindu far-right leaders and former members of the India-based Hindu supremacist paramilitary organization Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS), including Ved Nanda (former RSS worker and President of Hindu Swayamsewak Sangh (HSS), the US offshoot of RSS), Mahesh Mehta (co-founder of Vishwa Hindu Parishad of America or the VHPA), and Gokul Kunnath (a former RSS worker and close confidant of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi) in 2001.  The VHPA is the American affiliate of India’s Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), a militant organization within the Indian Hindu nationalist network. It’s an anti-Christian and anti-Muslim group.

Kunnath serves as the current President of USHA. He was also part of the Global Indians For Bharat Vikas (GIBV), a US-based group formed to rally support for Modi’s election victory in 2014.  Basant Tariyal, who serves as USHA’s Board of governors Chair, previously served as CEO of Ekal Vidyalaya Global, one of the education wings of the RSS led Sangh Parivar.

Archived content of the USHA website from 2003 shows that the group extended open support to the Hindu nationalist (Hindutva) movement in India. “It is the sacred duty of all Hindus to support the efforts of the Hindus who are part of the Hindutva Movement,” the group wrote. At an event in October 2013, USHA appealed to Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard “to initiate efforts to have a bipartisan resolution inviting Narendra Modi,” who was then the Chief Minister of Gujarat. In 2006, Modi was denied visa for his role in the pogrom of Muslims in Gujarat state.

USHA shares close ties with the Hindu far-right ecosystem in the US including with HSS, VHPA and its affiliates, Ekal Vidyalaya, Sewa International and the Coalition of Hindus of North America (CoHNA).

CoHNA’s Vice President, Rajeev Menon has served as Vice President of Communications for USHA.  In September 2014, CoHNA president, Nikunj Trivedi, in collaboration with USHA, organized an event in support of PM Modi and against organizations critical of Hindu nationalism and minority persecution in India. 

While reducing all the critics to labels like “communist/leftist groups, along with extremist Muslim organizations, Far Right Christian Evangelical Organizations and a set of pseudo secular groups,” USHA wrote that these groups had “engaged in a persistent and aggressive campaign to destroy the political career of Shri Narendra Modi.” Trivedi was listed as one of the contact persons for this event. 

USHA was one of the co-organizers of the August 2026 event featuring RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat at Madison Square Garden in New York City in an effort to mainstream and sanitize the RSS and its Hindu nationalist ideology in the US.