Jeremy Corbyn has been hit by a new racism row after a former senior Labour figure accused the party of “institutional bias” against Indians.
Manoj Ladwa, a British Asian political strategist who has previously worked as an election aide to Narendra Modi, the Indian prime minister, said he had resigned as a member after more than 20 years because policy-making had been “hijacked” by “hard-left extremists and jihadi sympathisers”.
His comments follow the passing of a resolution at the Labour conference that criticised India’s actions in the divided region of Kashmir and called for a campaign of self-determination.
The move drew a strong rebuke from the Indian government, which accused Labour of “pandering to vote-bank interests” — a reference to the party abandoning British Indians in…
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