Debbie Abrahams A British MP Unceremoniously Booted Out From IGI : Denied Entry Into India
A high headed MP of a Brexit Britain who never gets tired of poking her nose into internal affairs of India received reciprocal treatment at Indira Gandhi International Airport. She has been highly critical of withdrawl of Jammu and Kashmir’s special status as if it had been conferred by Queen of England.
Last Monday she was denied entry after she landed at Delhi airport and was soon escorted out and deported to Dubai from where she had flown to New Delhi.
Labour Party MP Debbie Abraham’s did not desist from throwing tantrums regarding having a valid visa. This was a blatant lie as she had already been informed about her e-visa being cancelled. Even a valid Visa can be cancelled any time If one tries to insult Indian Parliament..
Abrahams, chairs the All Party Parliamentary Group for Kashmir in the British Parliament,itself a major affront to India. The MP though kept claiming that she was travelling on a valid e-visa to India to visit family and friends but her visa was revoked without explanation.
A home ministry spokesperson in New Delhi said the British parliamentarian had been duly informed that her visa was cancelled and she arrived in Delhi despite knowing this.
Her office in the UK confirmed she was put on a plane to Dubai, which is where she flew into Delhi from earlier on Monday.
Her e-visa was reportedly issued last October, and was valid until October 2020.
Recounting her experience at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport, she said in a statement on Twitter that she arrived here on Monday morning and was informed that her e-visa has been cancelled.
In her statement, Abrahams said she had presented herself at the immigration desk along with her documents and e-visa.
“…the official looked at his screen and started shaking his head. Then he told me my visa was rejected, took my passport and disappeared for about 10 minutes.
“When he came back he was very rude and aggressive shouting at me to ‘come with me’. I told him not to speak to me like that and was then taken to a cordoned off area marked as a Deportee Cell. He then ordered me to sit down and I refused. I didn’t know what they might do or where else they may take me, so I wanted people to see me,” the British MP said.
The immigration officer disappeared again, she said, adding that she phoned her sister-in-law’s cousin who she was going to be staying with.
“Kai got in touch with the British High Commission and he tried to find out what was going on,” she wrote on Twitter.
She said later several immigration officials came to her but none of them knew why her e-visa was cancelled. “Even the person who seemed to be in charge said he didn’t know and was really sorry about what had happened.”
Abrahams should not have been surprised at all as she was among a group of MPs who issued formal letters following the revocation of Jammu and Kashmir’s special status under Article 370 in August last year.
“We are gravely concerned at the announcement by Indian Home Minister, Amit Shah, that Article 370 of the Indian Constitution, which grants special status to Jammu and Kashmir, has been removed by Presidential Order,” the Opposition MP had noted in her letter to the UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab at the time.
So now she has been paid back for her attempt to poke her nose into internal affairs of India.
