Boris Johnson faces flak for JCB visit

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"BJP used the JCB diggers to bulldoze Muslim shops and homes." Here's why some British MPs were unhappy about their PM posing inside a JCB in Gujarat...

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00:00...photographs leaning out of a digger in a JCB factory and just days before the

00:05BJP used JCB diggers to bulldoze Muslim shops and homes and the gate of a mosque

00:12in New Delhi. Did the Prime Minister challenge Modi on the BJP's role in

00:15anti-Muslim violence in India?

01:00We know that during the Prime Minister's visit he was photographed

01:18leaning out of a digger in a JCB factory and just days before the BJP used JCB

01:25diggers to bulldoze Muslim shops and homes and the gate of a mosque in New

01:30Delhi. Local governments in a number of other Indian states have also carried

01:33out similar demolitions. So I ask again, did the Prime Minister raise this with

01:39Modi? If not, why not? And does the Minister accept that the Prime Minister's

01:44visit to India has helped to legitimise the actions of Modi's far-right

01:48government? We condemn any instance of discrimination. Thank you. The Prime

01:53Minister began his trip to India with a visit to a JCB factory just one day

01:57after the company was embroiled in controversy after its bulldozers were

02:01used to legally destroy and demolish Muslim homes and businesses in Delhi and

02:05following widespread anti-Muslim violence in India which is widely seen

02:09as being whipped up by Modi and the ruling BJP. So I ask the Minister again

02:14because she has failed to actually answer the question, did the Prime Minister

02:17challenge Modi on the BJP's role in anti-Muslim violence in India or did the

02:21Prime Minister once again disregard human rights abuses and does she

02:25acknowledge that the visit to the JCB factory was a mistake? I will say it

02:29again and again, protecting freedom of religion or belief is one of the

02:34absolutely top human rights priorities for this country and

02:40while we have concerns we raise them including a ministerial level.

02:51you

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