The High Commission of India in London has condemned UK lawmakers for his or her remarks throughout a debate held within the House of Commons on press freedom and security of farmer protesters in India amid the continued farmers’ stir towards three agricultural legal guidelines.
The fee slammed the talk held on Monday night in a Westminster Committee Room saying ‘it was one-sided and full of false assertions.’
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In a press release issued instantly after the talk, the Indian mission based mostly in London stated ” High Commission of India has been, over a period of time, taking care to inform all concerned about the issues raised in the petition. We deeply regret that rather than a balanced debate, false assertions – without substantiation or facts – were made, casting aspersions on the largest functioning democracy in the world and its institutions.”
The spokesman additional famous that feedback had been made to mislead the British Indian neighborhood, elevating doubts about therapy of minorities in India, alleged human rights violations in ‘Kashmir’ and so forth.
On Monday, the British Parliament held a 90 minute debate in response to an e-petition which had crossed the 100,000-signature threshold, required for it to be accepted by the House of Commons Petitions Committee. During the dialogue, MPs condemned India for its therapy of farmer protesters and alleged crackdown on the press, in addition to Internet shutdowns and arrest of activists.
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India rejected all these claims saying: international media, together with the British media, are current in India and have witnessed the occasions underneath dialogue first-hand. The query of lack of freedom of the media in India doesn’t come up.
