UK overseas secretary James Cleverly stated India and UK share a thriving relationship pushed by deep, private connections. The violence in direction of the workers on the Indian Excessive Fee is unacceptable and the UK authorities will guarantee safety on the Indian Excessive Fee because the safety of the overseas missions of all international locations within the UK is a severe situation. The reassurance comes as pro-Khalistani teams once more protested exterior the Indian excessive fee in London on Wednesday for hours throwing water bottles and smoke flares on the fundamental gate of the excessive fee. The protest was foiled by the police who barricaded them and stored an in depth watch. Learn | In India’s tit-for-tat transfer, barricades for safety exterior UK mission eliminated
The state of affairs has grow to be tense after Khalistani supporters on Sunday took down the Indian flag from atop the Indian excessive fee — as an enormous crackdown is occurring within the nation — in Punjab — towards Amritpal Singh, a Khalistan sympathiser and a radical Sikh chief.
On Wednesday, India, in a tit-for-tat transfer, decreased the safety exterior the British excessive fee and the envoy’s residence in New Delhi. There was, nevertheless, no official phrase on the difficulty. Rajya Sabha MP Mahesh Jethmalani praised India’s robust stand and stated: “GOIs response to the tricolour desecration in London of downgrading safety on the UK Excessive Commision right here displays the outrage of all Indians. Most heartening is the clear message by the Sikh group worldwide that #Khalistan is the pipe dream of an ISI funded fringe.”
Assuring heightened safety, the UK overseas secretary stated, “We’re working with the Metropolitan Police to assessment safety on the Indian Excessive Fee, and can make the adjustments wanted to make sure the security of its workers as we did for at this time’s demonstration. We are going to all the time take the safety of the Excessive Fee, and all overseas missions within the UK, extraordinarily severely, and stop and robustly reply to incidents similar to this.”
After the tricolour incident, India lodged a robust protest with the senior-most British envoy in India demanding the arrest of the perpetrators. A much bigger nationwide flag was on Wednesday noticed atop the consulate.