TAD NewsDesk, New Delhi: British Labour Party MP Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi has collected the signatures as a mark of consent to the letter addressed to the British PM. The letter is about the farmer’s protest and the concern is to raise the issue to his Indian counterpart PM Modi.
The letter wants the PM to convey that the rights of peaceful protest are justified in a democracy and it should be reserved and ensured. They want the meeting in India as planned earlier to be cancelled.
MP Dhesi told IANS in a message,
“Immensely grateful to the 100 plus MPs and Lords who’ve signed cross-party letter to the Prime Minister, given huge concerns for the peaceful Indian farmers’ protest. Boris Johnson must raise with the Indian PM when they liaise, expressing hopes of a speedy resolution to the current deadlock.”
The letter dated January 5, titled
“Peacefully protesting Indian farmers and linked global protests“, says the issue has so deeply agrived the Indian diaspora community, especially those of Punjabi or Sikh background, and others who have land or links to farming in India, that tens of thousands engaged in global protests, including in towns and cities across the UK.
“A cross-party letter was sent to Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab to raise this matter with his Indian counterpart and he has assured that it was raised with the Indian Foreign Minister, but he did not do so with the Indian Prime Minister during his December Delhi meeting.
We believe your January India visit has now been cancelled, but you intend to meet your Indian counterpart soon. Given the urgency of this matter, could you please confirm that you will definitely convey to the Indian Prime Minister the heart-felt anxieties of our constituents, our hopes for a speedy resolution to the current deadlock and also for the democratic human right of citizens to peacefully protest?
We look forward to your timely response, so that we can inform our constituents accordingly,” said the letter signed by over 100 MPs.”
The agitated farmers in India are demanding the repealing of the three centre farm laws. There has been many meetings between the farmers and the government but there has been a dead-end to each one of them as no other negotiable terms are acceptable to the farmers other than repealing of the laws. The farmers are still on rigid protests in Delhi demanding the right justice.
Source: National Herald
