Recently, anti-India and anti-Modi sentiment seems to be rising in the UK.
A letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, which is allegedly written by a British politician from the Asian community, is apparently doing rounds for gaining signatures of politicians in the UK seeking intervention to address the warnings issued by human rights groups of an impending genocidal catastrophe in India with India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The letter which does not have a signature of the author at the end, states that international human rights organisations - Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Genocide Watch have publicly warned that there is a real danger that genocide of Muslims in India is likely to take place unless the Indian government takes action to avert it.
Another event slated to take place in Westminster Hall debate on 9 February at 4 pm is about the “20th anniversary of the 2022 Gujarat riots”.
While the UK is yet to find the culprits of “Partygate”, battling staff shortages, rise in energy bills, discrepancies in ‘levelling up’, and not to forget, racism and unemployment amid the ongoing pandemic, it is amusing to see how India’s internal matters are of supreme interest to the British people in positions of power, when India is a free country for the past 75 years.
In an interview with Asian Voice in the year 2020, sharing his point of view on the abolition of Article 370 in India and its economic impact, Lord Tariq Ahmad of Wimbledon had exhibited a non-intervention policy towards India’s internal matters. Back then, he had termed India’s abolition of Article 370 “very much an internal matter for the Indian government.” He accepted that while the situation in Kashmir is still challenging in terms of human rights, the CW office will “raise its concerns privately, bilaterally and constructively”.
