UK- India Relations
UK and India relations have never been cordial, not in last 75 years, although commercial business continued. UK is an ex colonial power hence it still wants to maintain its pre-eminent position at the head of the table. This was alright with the Congress Party when for 60 years they were in power. Most of its high operatives were either British graduates or were somehow connected to the British interests, hence they were soft on them. The situation changed when BJP came to power. All those British influence in politics, diplomacy and military began to decline. Modi and his cohorts were not anti British and were not their supporters either. They wished Indian brand in everything, not British brand. They began the process of decolonization slowly first by removing British trained officials in every walk of life. Most of Modi’s inner circle boys have no connection to Britain. Then came the flight of financial fugitives to Britain. Even if the British courts said that these should extradited back and face fraud charges, the British government refused to extradite them. Rather they organized anti Indian sentiments in people of Indian origin living in Briton’s (Sikh terrorists, Muslim operatives supported by Pakistan). So much so that a host and Sikh and Muslim politicians were making anti Indian statements of purely an Indian matter of internal agriculture reforms.
India took the lumps for another day. Decolonization became in earnest. At india Gate an anti British statue of Subhash Chander Bose was installed at a place where British monarch stood years back. The British pre-independence building of Parliament House was left alone but a new one was built to house the Parliament sittings. The worst for the British influence - the Indian Army has been asked to abandon British traditions, British names and British process and procedures in the Army are to be abondoned. There is a lot more to come. Everybody in India except Nehru- Gandhi dynasty supports these measures.
The British were holding off a trade deal with India. That did not bother India much. Indian economy as of this year has bypassed the British economy and in five years, it will be 30% bigger than the British.
All of this is not sitting well with the British. If Hindu-Muslim riots happen in British cities, it is all British fault. They are the one using the Sikh and Muslim settled in Briton as a political tool. Now it has recoiled back upon them…… Bad luck Briton, your time is over. India should use these opportunities to make similar statements which the British leaders were making during farmer’s agitation.
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