LONDON – Sikhs across the Europe will protest the arrival of Indian PMNarendra Modi in UK.
Sikh campaign group was the last one that announced that it will join aprotest demonstration with other UK-based groups against Prime MinisterNarendra Modi outside one of the venues of the “Commonwealth Heads ofGovernment Meeting” in April.
Modi to arrive for the meeting from April 16 to 20, when the UK will assumeits chairmanship for the next two years. Security concerns have ruled outModi making a public address before the Indian community.
The Sikh Federation UK claimedSikhslink> would“turn out in thousands” to protest outside the Queen Elizabeth II Centreagainst Modi, who it described would be the “primary focus” of thedemonstration. The release of British national Jagtar Singh Johal arrestedin Punjab for targeted killings would be a major issue in the protest.
British MPs and others have often raised Johal’s arrest in Parliament,urging the Theresa May government to take up the issue with India. Foreignsecretary Boris Johnson has assured his family that London was doingeverything it could to ensure he gets access to justice in India