Before the visit, Modi also expressed an interested in buying 20 more BAE Systems-made Hawk trainer aircraft. PM said that, “We are confidently, consistently and ceaselessly working to ingrate our economy with the world”.
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The India Business Group (IBG), a Southampton and Winchester-based consultancy specialising in helping organisations develop trade and investment between the two countries expect deals worth more than £10b to be signed while Prime Minister Modi is in the UK.
Amnesty worldwide has called on British Prime Minister David Cameron to not just “unfurl the red carpet” for his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi but “raise a few red flags on human rights concerns too”.
“In a country that has suffered a lot because of corruption and misadministration, Modi is regarded as someone who is a clean politician and is somebody who delivers”, said Manoj Ladwa of the Europe India Forum, which organized the Wembley rally. “These changes will encourage India to be a global manufacturing hub United Kingdom companies should be best placed to invest into, after the discussions that take place at government and business levels during Prime Minister Modi’s three day visit to the United Kingdom”.
Up to 500 people held a demonstration outside Downing Street against the visit Thursday before the talks with Cameron, many of them Sikhs.
“As for what happened in the past, there were legal proceedings, there were also representations from the British government at the time”. Both of us are backed by our countries for this parliament to work together and strengthen the partnership that we have, ” he added. But he has also been accused of failing to stop attacks on religious minorities, and his BJP party suffered a recent drubbing in an important state election widely seen as a referendum on Modi’s popularity. ” A few posters even display pictures of Modi and Hitler, suggesting the Indian leader’s policies promote ethnic cleansing”.
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He said the demonstration intends to “highlight the atrocities” visited on minority groups “due to this ideology”. Up to 8,000 demonstrators are expected to attend.
