Congressional Spotlight on Singham Network Catches India's Protest Coverage in Its Beam

A US congressional probe into the funding network of Shanghai-based tech tycoon Neville Roy Singham has pulled India's electoral-roll protests into its orbit — not because anyone has shown the network funds or directs them, but because its affiliates have been loud in covering and amplifying them.

A Fox News Digital investigation by Asra Q. Nomani, published Tuesday, identified 101 organisations across nine countries, including the US, that it says are "coordinating, organising or amplifying protests in Europe." India shows up twice. Progressive International grouped the protests in France, Spain, India and Albania in an October 16 briefing and asked how the "new rebellions" could acquire organised political power. A France-based group, Indian Alliance Paris, was listed as connecting French and Indian protest messaging and partnering with the People's Forum in Manhattan.

The report is careful not to claim the network is driving the Indian protests, and that restraint is worth noting. What is documented is coverage, amplification and solidarity. Progressive International posted from Delhi on October 12: "We write from the barricades of Jantar Mantar, where the Government of India has deployed armed forces against citizens protesting mass disenfranchisement and defending their right to vote." Vijay Prashad, who heads Tricontinental, paired the cities in an October 18 post: "Paris-New Delhi-Buenos Aires / Let fury have the hour, anger can be power." BreakThrough News covered the protests on October 12, 13 and 16, reporting on October 13 that "'Unparalleled and unprecedented' police repression was seen in India this weekend."

Fox said BreakThrough News, CodePink and the Party for Socialism and Liberation are "funded and supported by" Singham, an American-born tech tycoon living in Shanghai. The scrutiny is not new. In July 2026, the House Ways and Means Committee, chaired by Jason Smith, subpoenaed BreakThrough News, Prashad's Tricontinental and the People's Forum. Smith led the House delegation that met External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar in Mumbai this week. In April 2025, Senator Chuck Grassley asked the Justice Department whether the People's Forum and Code Pink should register as foreign agents, writing that "evidence suggests" they have been "funded and influenced by Mr. Singham and the communist Chinese government." The New York Post and CBS News, citing unnamed sources, have reported that a federal grand jury in Manhattan is investigating Singham. No charges have been filed and the Justice Department has not confirmed the probe. The New York Times first detailed his funding network in 2023.

The protests themselves erupted over a voter-roll revision that the Guardian reported "has stripped 130m names from India's electoral roll," with demonstrators demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar. A BJP spokesperson said the allegations over the revision had "no base, not an iota of evidence." American singer Mary Millben also weighed in last week with a video on X in which, her post said, she "speaks on the protests in India, who's funding the protests," and in another post alleged the George Soros group was behind them.

What makes this story worth following is the gap between what is alleged and what is proven. The congressional interest is real, the subpoenas are real, and the amplification is documented. But the leap from "amplified by affiliated groups" to "funded and directed" is one nobody has yet substantiated — and in an Indian political climate where protest funding is a charged accusation, that distinction will be the first thing lost in the noise.

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