India’s minister of External Affairs on Thursday canceled a meeting with U.S. lawmakers, reportedly because the delegation from the House Foreign Affairs Committee included Rep. Pramila Jayapal, a Washington Democrat who has been criticial of the Indian assault on the Kashmir region. 

“I have no interest in meeting her,” Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar told Indian news agency ANI of Jayapal.

Jayapal told The Washington Post‘s John Hudson, who broke the story, that she was disappointed in the decision.

An unwillingness on the part of Indian authorities to hear other views, said Jayapal, speaks to a broader problem in the way the country’s government treats opposing views at a time when the world’s most populous democracy is riven by internal conflict over a number of hardline policies, including a controversial citizenship bill targeted at Muslims.

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“This only furthers the idea that the Indian government isn’t willing to listen to any dissent at all,” said Jayapal. “The seriousness of this moment should’ve been a reason for a conversation, not dictating who’s in the meeting, which seems very petty.”