Farmers increase slogans throughout their protest in opposition to new farm laws, at Ghazipur border in New Delhi.
India summoned the British High Commissioner on Tuesday and conveyed its sturdy opposition to the “unwarranted and tendentious” discussion on India’s agricultural reforms within the British Parliament. The Ministry of External Affairs mentioned Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla advised the envoy that discussions within the British Parliament on India’s agri reforms represented a gross interference in politics of one other democratic nation.
It mentioned the international secretary additionally suggested the envoy that British MPs ought to chorus from practising “vote bank politics by misrepresenting events”, particularly in relation to a different fellow democracy.
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“Foreign Secretary summoned the British High Commissioner and conveyed strong opposition to the unwarranted and tendentious discussion on agricultural reforms in India in the British Parliament,” the MEA mentioned in an announcement.
“Foreign Secretary made clear that this represented a gross interference in the politics of another democratic country,” it added.
It additional mentioned: “He advised that British MPs should refrain from practising vote bank politics by misrepresenting events, especially in relation to another fellow democracy.”
