By TwoCircles.net staff reporter
Mumbai : Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) has strongly protested against India’s participation in the launch of the Israeli Spy Satellite Tecsar.
"The growing Indo-Israeli relations are in defiance of the age old Indian support to Palestinians. They reflect deepening insensitivity to humanitarian concerns and healthy world order, as Israel is the worst occupying and occupation force perpetrating untold atrocities on Palestinians. It is also shocking that India participated in this launching of Israeli Spy Satellite which is heavily focused, with its capacity to spy day and night and in all weather, against Iran with which India has age long friendly ties," IUML president G.M. Banatwalla said in a statement here Friday.
The IUML laments that the Government of India has, on one hand, displayed total indifference to Israel’s blockade to Gaza stopping food, medicine, electricity and other essential supplies, and on the other, actively participated in adding to the military capabilities
of Israel.
"The sealing of Gaza borders by Israel is an inhuman siege imposed on the entire suffering people of Gaza," Banatwalla asserted.
The IUML, in accordance with the resolution adopted in its National Executive Committee meeting held at Chennai on September 2 last, called upon the Union Government "to desist from relations with Zionist Israel" and urged it "to take all international initiatives to get Israeli blockade of Gaza ended."
The IUML however appreciated and thanked the Government for declining the French proposal to allow that country’s award to be conferred upon Taslima Nasreen during the French President’s visit to India.
IUML leader, in no uncertain terms, appealed to the Government "to revoke her visa and deport her immediately.
"We emphasise that both Salman Rushdie and Taslima Nasreen be never allowed to enter India at any time in future," he said.