Boris Johnson’s go to to the JCB manufacturing unit on April 21 was criticised as “tone-deaf”. AFP
New Delhi:
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been slammed by two girls MPs within the UK over his go to to a JCB manufacturing unit in Gujarat days after excavators razed properties and retailers in a number of states within the wake of communal clashes.
The MPs additionally questioned if the British Prime Minister introduced up the difficulty with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Whereas the BJP-led governments and civic our bodies have harassed that the demolitions have been carried out to take away encroachment, the Opposition and activists have accused them of concentrating on Muslims within the garb of eradicating encroachment.
Talking within the UK’s Home of Commons, Labour MP for Nottingham East, Nadia Whittome, questioned if Prime Minister Johnson’s latest go to to India had helped legitimise the demolitions carried out by the BJP-led administrations in varied states.
The BJP (Modi’s governing occasion) is utilizing JCB diggers to bulldoze the properties and retailers of Muslims.
Boris Johnson posed with JCB diggers on his latest go to to India, however his minister would not say whether or not he even raised these demolitions with Modi. pic.twitter.com/aIWVw5TLIl
— Nadia Whittome MP (@NadiaWhittomeMP) April 28, 2022
She pointed to Mr Johnson’s images with an excavator on a go to to the manufacturing unit of British heavy tools maker JCB close to Vadodara quickly after North Delhi Municipal Company, managed by BJP, razed properties and retailers in Jahangirpuri.
“We all know that throughout the Prime Minister’s go to, he was photographed leaning out of a digger in a JCB manufacturing unit. Simply days earlier than the BJP used JCB bulldozers to bulldoze Muslim retailers and houses and the gate of a mosque in New Delhi,” Ms Whittome stated.
“Did the Prime Minister elevate this with (Prime Minister) Modi. If not, why not? And does the Minister settle for that the Prime Minister’s go to to India has helped legitimise the actions of Modi’s far-right authorities?”
Zarah Sultana, MP from Coventry South, additionally raised the difficulty within the UK Parliament and stated Mr Johnson’s go to to the JCB manufacturing unit “exhibits how a lot he actually cares about human rights”.
Boris Johnson did not problem Modi on the BJP whipping-up anti-Muslim violence throughout his journey to India.
As an alternative he visited a JCB manufacturing unit the day after the corporate’s bulldozers demolished Muslim properties in Delhi.
That exhibits you ways a lot he actually cares about human rights. pic.twitter.com/WMlsZYm8Lp
— Zarah Sultana MP (@zarahsultana) April 26, 2022
“Boris Johnson did not problem Modi on the BJP whipping-up anti-Muslim violence throughout his journey to India. As an alternative he visited a JCB manufacturing unit the day after the corporate’s bulldozers demolished Muslim properties in Delhi,” she stated in a Twitter put up, sharing a clip of her speech within the Home.
Responding to each MPs, the federal government benches stated they condemn discrimination and lift such points when wanted.
Earlier, Mr Johnson’s go to to the JCB manufacturing unit on April 21 was criticised as “tone-deaf” and “ironic”.
The demolition in Delhi’s Jahangirpuri was carried out after clashes between two communities throughout a Hanuman Jayanti procession. The conflict adopted a number of incidents of communal rigidity in varied components of the nation on Ram Navami.
JCB is among the many largest manufactures of earth movers and excavators and over time, the time period bulldozers has come to be synonymous with JCB in India.
