John Swinney accuses Westminster of power grab over children s rights Bill heraldscotland.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from heraldscotland.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
In House of Commons British MPs voice concern at India suppressing freedom and peaceful protests
On a debate in the House of Commons on â Press Freedom and the safety of Protestors in Indiaâ, 19 of the 20 Members who spoke came up with scathing criticism of the Indian Government
(Photo by House of Commons/PA Images via Getty Images)
Engagement: 0
Winding up a debate by House of Commons MPs on India on Monday, the Minister for Asia in the British Foreign Officer Nigel Adams disclosed his prime minister, Boris Johnson, will raise human rights issues with Narendra Modi when he visits India later in spring. Adams said: âWhere we have serious and specific concerns, we will raise them directly with the Indian government.â He concluded: âLet me end by reassuring colleagues that the UK government will continue to monitor developments relating to the protests incredibly close.â
LONDON: India issued a demarche on Tuesday to Britain and summoned the British high commissioner to convey strong opposition to the “unwarranted and tendentious discussion” on India’s agricultural reforms in the UK Parliament, which the Indian high commission here described as packed with false assertions and one-sided.
Dubbing the debate “a gross interference in the politics of another democratic country”, foreign secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla advised UK high commissioner to India Alex Ellis that British MPs “should refrain from practising vote-bank politics” by misrepresenting events, especially in relation to another fellow democracy.
The Indian high commission here said it “had taken note of the distinctly one-sided discussion” sparked by a petition on press freedoms and protester safety in India. “We deeply regret that false assertions without substantiation or facts were made, casting aspersions on the largest functioning democracy in the world an
The SNP will stand up for gender equality at every turn – working for an end to austerity, for equal pay, more and better jobs and to end the barriers that…