British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been slammed by two women MPs in the UK over his visit to a JCB factory in Gujarat days after the company’s bulldozers demolished Muslim homes in Delhi.
The MPs also questioned if the British Prime Minister brought up the issue with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The British MP Nadia Whittome tweeted, “The BJP (Modi’s governing party) is using JCB diggers to bulldoze the homes and shops of Muslims. Boris Johnson posed with JCB diggers on his recent visit to India, but his minister wouldn’t say whether he even raised these demolitions with Modi”.
The BJP (Modi’s governing party) is using JCB diggers to bulldoze the homes and shops of Muslims.
Boris Johnson posed with JCB diggers on his recent visit to India, but his minister wouldn’t say whether he even raised these demolitions with Modi. pic.twitter.com/aIWVw5TLIl
— Nadia Whittome MP (@NadiaWhittomeMP) April 28, 2022
“We know that during the Prime Minister’s visit, he was photographed leaning out of a digger in a JCB factory. Just days before the BJP used JCB bulldozers to bulldoze Muslim shops and homes and the gate of a mosque in New Delhi,” Ms Whittome said.
“Did the Prime Minister raise this with (Prime Minister) Modi. If not, why not? And does the Minister accept that the Prime Minister’s visit to India has helped legitimise the actions of Modi’s far-right government?”, Whittome added.
Further Zarah Sultana, MP from Coventry South, also raised the issue in the UK Parliament and said Mr Johnson’s visit to the JCB factory “shows how much he really cares about human rights”.
She tweeted, “Boris Johnson failed to challenge Modi on the BJP whipping-up anti-Muslim violence during his trip to India. Instead he visited a JCB factory the day after the company’s bulldozers demolished Muslim homes in Delhi. That shows you how much he really cares about human rights”.
Boris Johnson failed to challenge Modi on the BJP whipping-up anti-Muslim violence during his trip to India.
Instead he visited a JCB factory the day after the company’s bulldozers demolished Muslim homes in Delhi.
That shows you how much he really cares about human rights. pic.twitter.com/WMlsZYm8Lp
— Zarah Sultana MP (@zarahsultana) April 26, 2022
