Watch: Boris Johnson Visits JCB Bulldozer Factory In Gujarat
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Boris Johnson's visit to the bulldozer factory attracted outsized attention as it came amid a growing controversy over razing homes and shops by BJP-controlled governments and municipalities.
Tearing through memes, wisecracks and criticism, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who is on a two-day India visit, on Thursday visited a factory of the British heavy equipment maker JCB at Gujarat's Halol industrial area near Vadodara. #WATCH UK PM Boris Johnson along with Gujarat CM Bhupendra Patel visits JCB factory at Halol GIDC, Panchmahal in Gujarat(Source: UK Pool) pic.twitter.com/Wki9PKAsDA Seems like @BorisJohnson's visit is now turning increasingly tone-deaf. Visiting a plant of the JCB company while its bulldozers are being used to illegally terrorise Muslims? Someone at @UKinIndia failed to do their job. Only way Johnson can salvage this trip is by speaking up. https://t.co/W42Zb72DC2 As many such images emerged from Delhi, it is ironical that the UK PM @BorisJohnson will inaugurate a JCB factory in Gujarat today.#borisinindiapic.twitter.com/2B7lDERk4Z JCB's website proudly notes that it is used for construction, agriculture, recycling and power generation.In India, it is being used to disposess the poor and inflict collective humiliation upon Muslims.Hope that friends in the UK will make hold their PM to account. Tag them. https://t.co/Jc7iX1ERpCpic.twitter.com/pjJF2wka9Y What a bulldozer of an irony! British PM @BorisJohnson will inaugurate the JCB plant in Halol that will manufacture bulldozers on a day when Supreme Court is taking cognisance of the constitutional limits of the administration's use of the machine. #jahagirpuri From Gandhi's Charkha to Modi's JCB - Boris Johnson covered the history of India from 1947 to 2022, in a day. pic.twitter.com/1N0Fcku3iT Boris Johnson, in India, expected to visit a JCB bulldozer plant in Gujarat...on day India's supreme court hears urgent case of how authorities in two states wheeled in bulldozers (JCB logos visible) to raze homes & shops in areas of communal clashes without notice or due process https://t.co/EP8WqMJeVm
The Prime Minister's visit to the bulldozer factory attracted outsized attention as it came amid a growing controversy over razing homes and shops by BJP-controlled governments and municipalities in a campaign that the opposition and activists say has targeted mostly Muslims.
Criticised as "tone-deaf" and "ironic", Mr Johnson's visit coincided with the Supreme Court renewing orders to stop the demolitions in Delhi's Jahangirpuri, days after a communal clash. The demolitions, which took place around a mosque, targeted "one particular section of society", petitioners had said.
