Badal urged Union Home Minister Amit Shah to intervene personally "to put a brake on such humiliating treatment to members of the Sikh community". The SAD chief also said, "The guilty officials must be pulled up for their rude and discriminatory treatment of a highly respected Sikh personality".
United Kingdom MP Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi was allegedly stopped for two hours by immigration officials after he landed at the Shri Guru Ramdas Ji International Airport on Thursday, police sources said. Sources say that the Labour MP from Slough was not carrying his Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) card.
Nepal’s Madheshi parties help Oli stay in power
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With the Mahantha Thakur-Rajendra Mahato-led Madheshi faction of the Janata Samajbadi Party refusing to support them, the two opposition parties failed to secure the required votes to lay claim to form a coalition government.
ET Bureau
The Madhesi parties from Nepal s Terai region played smart politics, denying the Nepali Congress-Maoists combine a chance to form government in Kathmandu, enabling KP Sharma Oli to be reappointed as Prime Minister within days of losing a confidence vote.
With the Mahantha Thakur-Rajendra Mahato-led Madheshi faction of the Janata Samajbadi Party refusing to support them, the two opposition parties failed to secure the required votes to lay claim to form a coalition government.
Slough MP Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi raised the matter in the Parliament. More than 100 members of this House signed a cross party letter to the Prime Minister about our anxieties for the peacefully protesting farmers in India and we eagerly await his response. But does the Secretary of State agree that it’s extremely concerning to hear alarming reports of harassment and intimidation by the authorities there, who have started issuing notices to peaceful protestors, union leaders and human rights activists?” Dhesi asked.
Responding to the query Raab said that he understood Dhesi’s concerns and added, “I have discussed the protests with Foreign Minister Jaishankar when I visited India in December.