Indian High Commission in London attacked by Khalistani Elements
Indian High Commission in London attacked by Khalistani Elements
It comes as a rude shock of an open attack on the Indian High Commission in London by the Khalistani elements.
Strongly reacting to the incident and terming it as most disgraceful act, India has asked for an explanation from the top United Kingdom diplomat on the lack of British security that facilitated to make a free entry the Indian High Commission on Sunday and replace the Tricolour with the Khalistani flag.
It happened much before the diplomat was summoned to the Foreign Office on March 19.
India has further rebuked the UK High Commission’s second-ranking diplomat over the UK government’s total disregard of Indian diplomatic premises and personnel security in the country. This is an alarming situation.
The Ministry of External Affairs has called for the UK government to identify, arrest, and prosecute the perpetrators. They have also made request the government initiate strong measures to avoid similar events from being repeated again.
On social media videos, “Separatist and Extremist on chanted “Khalistan Zindabad” and anti-India slogans at the High Commission premises. They also held a poster of fugitive Amritpal Singh, a Khalistani sympathizer.
UK’s High Commissioner to India, Alex Ellis, denounced the “disgraceful” incident.
He added that the disgraceful act against the Indian High Commission is unacceptable and people in London have condemned it
Recently there has been a string of mindless attacks in Indian missions, temples, and Gandhi statues in the UK, Canada, the US, and Australia. have recently experienced a string of attacks.
PM Narendra Modi expressed disappointment over recurring news of temple attacks in Australia. In the backdrop of aggressive protests in front of the High Commission against lockdown in Kashmir and CAA/NRC in 2019 prompted PM Modi to speak to then UK PM Boris Johnson on providing adequate security to Indian diplomatic facilities.
Meanwhile images surfaced online with the Indian Tricolour installed in front of the mission.
News Input K.V.Raman
