The person, reportedly overwhelmed to loss of life on Saturday for “sacrilege”, had allegedly barged into the inside sanctum the place the Guru Granth Sahib is stored and grabbed a ceremonial sword positioned subsequent to the ebook earlier than being overpowered by guards and worshippers.
Responding to a video associated to the incident posted on Twitter by UK immigration lawyer Harjap Bhangal, Labour MP Gill went on to agree along with his message that it was a “clear act of terrorism”.
The shadow worldwide growth secretary’s now deleted Twitter put up learn: “Hindu terrorist prevented from an act of violence on the Sikh Holy shrine of Harminder Sahib (Golden Temple) towards Sikhs.”
It attracted outrage on social media, with some questioning if the politician was “attempting to make this communal?”
The Excessive Fee of India in London additionally condemned the tweet and raised considerations over its impression on the Indian diaspora communities within the UK.
“Excessive Fee of India is constrained to unequivocally repudiate the general public remark by a Member of the British Parliament relating to against the law that occurred in India even earlier than the Indian legislation enforcement authority might examine or remark or declare their discovering,” an Indian Excessive Fee spokesperson stated.
“The Excessive Fee of India is anxious on the impact that such commentary by a international MP could have on inter communal concord and peace within the British Indian group,” the spokesperson stated.
The tweet, from Saturday, appears to have been deleted quickly after by the MP for Birmingham Edgbaston to get replaced with a extra normal remark about locations of worship.
“No place of worship or group needs to be focused on this approach. Terrible scenes from Harmandir Sahib,” reads her new tweet.
Native police in Amritsar say the person was discovered useless when officers arrived on the scene and an investigation is underway.