"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