By IRNA
New Delhi : Strongly denouncing the reference to Nandigram violence in the US State department’s latest annual report among rights violations in India last year, Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI-M) Friday termed it as interference in Indian affairs.
“This reference is unnecessary and unwarranted. The report is based on totally misplaced facts,” said the Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) in a statement issued here Friday.
The Polit Bureau suggests that the US government would rather concentrate on taking positions on gross human rights violations in occupied Iraq and by the Zionist regime in the Gaza strip and other areas of occupied Palestine.
The Polit Bureau urges all right thinking people to reject this contention and interference of the US government with all the contempt that it deserves.
Meanwhile, CPI(M) leader, Mohd Salim at a press conference in New Delhi said, “We don’t think the US is the custodian or champion of human rights. Some people here think the Bush administration is so, but we do not suffer from any such illusions.”
He said earlier Washington used to treat China as the top most human rights violator and now they downgraded Beijing as Sino-US trade has grown and asked who are they (US) to give us certificate.