Jahangirpuri demolition: Amnesty India slams UK PM Boris Johnson for inaugurating manufacturing unit in Gujarat

By PTI

NEW DELHI: Hitting out at British Prime Minister Boris Johnson for inaugurating a JCB manufacturing unit in Gujarat a day after municipal company in Delhi razed houses in Jahangirpuri utilizing bulldozers, Amnesty India known as the transfer “ignorant”, whereas additionally saying his “silence” on the incident was deafening.

Earlier within the day, Johnson, who’s on a two-day go to to India, inaugurated a manufacturing unit of UK-headquartered heavy tools maker JCB at Halol in Panchmahals district of Gujarat.

As Indian authorities clamp down on human rights day by day, the UK authorities should not stay a mute bystander. It should carry human rights to the dialogue desk. India can’t wait one other day for justice.
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— Amnesty India (@AIIndia) April 21, 2022

This comes a day after bulldozers tore down a number of concrete and non permanent buildings near a mosque in Jahangirpuri as a part of an anti-encroachment drive by BJP-ruled North Delhi Municipal Corporatin, days after the northwest Delhi neighbourhood was rocked by communal violence.

The Supreme Court needed to intervene twice to cease the drive after it took cognizance of a petition filed by Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind towards the demolition.

Reacting sharply, Amnesty India tweeted, “In the backdrop of Municipal Corporation of Delhi using JCB bulldozers to raze down shops of Muslims in Northwest Delhi’s Jahangirpuri yesterday, UK Prime Minister’s inauguration of a JCB factory in Gujarat is not only ignorant but his silence on the incident is deafening.”

It additional mentioned the UK authorities should not stay a mute bystander.

“It must bring human rights to the discussion table. India cannot wait another day for justice… The demolition continued despite and in defiance of an order by the Supreme Court of India asking the authorities to stay the demolition exercise. The residents of Jahangirpuri were not even given an opportunity to salvage their possessions,” Amnesty India mentioned in one other tweet.

The rights group additionally known as these “brazen attacks” on the correct to livelihood and ample housing of spiritual minorities in India as an assault on their hopes for a safe future.