UK’s Labour Party MPs Push To Recall Kashmir Resolution That Angered India hindustantimes.com

Sections of the Labour party have launched a bid to ‘recall’ a resolution on Jammu and Kashmir passed at its annual conference last week, which raised hackles in the Indian community and prompted a near-boycott of the party and its MPs in recent events here.

The resolution, reiterating the party’s longstanding human-rights focused position on Jammu and Kashmir, was termed by New Delhi as “uninformed and unfounded.” Elements in the party are now exerting to assuage feelings, likely in view of the forthcoming elections.

According to senior Labour MP of Indian origin, Keith Vaz, the resolution “has been misguided and unhelpful”, adding that it was “agreed without the approval of the National Executive Committee of the Labour party, or the leader of the party, Jeremy Corbyn. It has created unnecessary distress and division within the party and the country”.