Commentary: What’s behind the overseas BJP’s involvement in British politics?

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By rallying Indian-origin voters against the Labour Party for the upcoming British elections, the friends of the BJP in the UK are adding to fault ...

The OFBJP’s key strategy has been to drum up its familiar brand of Hindu nationalism among voters of Indian origin in the UK.

WhatsApp messages have been circulating among Hindu voters in the UK alleging that Labour supports Pakistan’s stance on Kashmir and is anti-India as well as anti-Hindu. Videos of far-right anti-Muslim activists in the UK have also been sent as part of these messages, seeking to exploit the tensions between the two British religious communities.

He explicitly mentioned that the OFBJP is specifically targeting to oust six-Indian origin Labour MPs, some of whom it has accused as sympathetic to the Khalistani movement in the Indian state of Punjab. Naming them, Shekhawat said: “We are working with the Tory candidates in Keith Vaz’s ex seat, Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi’s seat, Preet Gill’s seat, Lisa Nandy’s seat, Seema Malhotra’s and Valerie Vaz’s seats.

 

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