Forwarded Press Release: UK – Protest against invitation to Modi is still on
Forwarded from South Asia Solidarity Group
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The protest against Barry Gardiner’s invitation to Modi is still going on as planned on 9 September, 2013[1]
South Asia Solidarity Group said ‘in the face of so much opposition to the invitation to Modi, Barry Gardiner has now released a statement saying that Modi is unable to come in the next few weeks. But we are continuing our campaign demanding that the invitation is officially withdrawn and not repeated. Modi has already tried to make political capital in India from this invitation, and we need to send a clear message that he is not welcome here’  Â
Monday 9 September 2013, 11:30 AM – 1 PM, at Barry Gardiner MP’s surgery, Brent Civic Centre, Engineers Way, Wembley HA9 0FJ
Nearest Tube Station: Wembley Park (see map http://www.brent.gov.uk/your-council/brent-civic-centre/your-visit-to-the-civic-centre/)
More information about the event here
• Narendra Modi is the Chief Minister of Gujarat, the Prime Ministerial candidate of the Hindu supremacist Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) and an avowed admirer of Hitler and his policies.
• In 2002, Modi presided over the genocidal attacks in which over 2,000 men, women and children from Gujarat’s Muslim minority community were systematically killed.
• This is the man whom Labour MP for Brent North Barry Gardiner has invited to come and address the House of Commons on the subject of ‘The Future of Modern India’.
Organised by South Asia Solidarity Group.
Supported by:
- Council of Indian Muslims
- Foil Vedanta
- Islamic Human Rights Commission
- Southall Black Sisters
- IWA, Birmingham
- South Asian Alliance
- Asian Rationalist Society
- Freedom Without Fear Platform
Visit the original event page here: https://www.facebook.com/events/627193123981006/?notif_t=plan_user_invited
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