The British Prime Minister said “India is a very different country from autocracies around the world. It’s a great democracy. It’s a stunning, shining fact that 1.35 billion people live under a democracy. That is something we should celebrate as it offers us an opportunity for closer cooperation and partnership.”
India is a great democracy and has constitutional safeguards for the communities, said UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson over the concerns of human rights groups.
While responding to whether India discussed the human rights groups’ concerns where Prime Minister Modi had presided over growing cultural Hindu nationalism in India, Johnson said, “On our relations with India and how we deal with the question about human rights group, Of course, we have these conversations (on human rights or democratic values). The advantage of our friendship is that we can have them in a friendly way. It’s very important to realise that India has constitutional protections for communities.”
He added, “India is a very different country from autocracies around the world. It’s a great democracy. It’s a stunning, shining fact that 1.35 billion people live under a democracy. That is something we should celebrate as it offers us an opportunity for closer cooperation and partnership.”
Johnson also said that this doesn’t mean that the UK won’t raise the question of the human rights issues.
Earlier, Johnson talked about India’s democracy and said, “India is one of the world’s oldest democratic countries and world’s largest democracy, sticking together and confronting our shared anxieties about autocracies around the world and we are acting together to make the world safer and more prosperous.”
Johnson said that the new defence and security partnership will help India to strengthen the domestic defence industry.
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The British Prime Minister started his day in New Delhi by paying tribute to Mahatma Gandhi at his Samadhi at Raj Ghat here. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar called on Johnson and discussed bilateral ties and the implementation of the India-UK Roadmap 2030.
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