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Debbie Abrahams had criticised India’s determination to revoke Kashmir’s particular standing
India has denied entry to a UK Labour MP who was important of the federal government’s controversial determination to revoke Kashmir’s particular standing final yr.
Debbie Abrahams, who chairs a parliamentary group on Kashmir, mentioned she was denied a normal e-visa at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi airport.
Immigration officers didn’t clarify the explanation for his or her determination.
She expressed concern final yr over India’s transfer to revoke partial autonomy for the a part of Kashmir it administers.
The choice to strip the state of its its semi-autonomous powers was broadly welcomed in India, however there was some worldwide opposition, notably from liberal lawmakers.
Ms Abrahams, MP for Oldham East and Saddleworth, was travelling to India on a private go to. After she landed in Delhi on Monday on an Emirates flight, she was informed that her visa had been rejected.
“I am ready to let the truth that I have been handled like a prison go, and I hope they may let me go to my household and associates,” she mentioned in an announcement.
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“An official took my passport and disappeared for about 10 minutes. When he got here again, he was very impolite and shouted at me to come back with him,” she mentioned.
She was reportedly taken to a cordoned off space marked as a deportee cell.
“After numerous totally different immigration officers got here to me, I attempted to determine why the visa had been revoked and if I may get a ‘visa on arrival’ however no-one appeared to know,” she mentioned.
“So now I’m simply ready to be deported, until the Indian authorities has a change of coronary heart.”
Final August, Ms Abrahams wrote to the UK international secretary, saying the parliamentary group was “gravely involved” in regards to the determination to strip the disputed area of its particular standing, including that it “betrayed the belief of the individuals of Jammu and Kashmir”.