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Ill-treatment of Jadhav-kin: BJP leader sends slippers to Pak High Commission
The Delhi BJP spokesperson also launched an online campaign requesting the 'nationalists' to send slippers to Pakistan.
New Delhi: A Delhi BJP leader on Friday ordered footwear online and gave the address of the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi for its delivery to protest against the ill-treatment meted out to the mother and the wife of death row convict Kulbhushan Jadhav, who is lodged in a Pakistani jail.
The two women visited Pakistan recently and were forced to remove their mangalsutra, bindi, bangles and footwear by the Pakistani authorities before they were allowed to meet Jadhav through a glass screen.
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Delhi BJP spokesperson Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga bought the footwear online and gave the address of the Pakistan High Commission for its delivery.
"Pakistan wants our slippers. Let's give them slippers. I have ordered slippers and sent to Pakistan High Commission," he tweeted.
Pakistan wants our slippers, Let's Give them Slippers. I have ordered Slippers & sent to Pakistan High Commission. I request everyone to Order 1 Pair Slipper for Pakistan. After ordering Slippers tweet your order's screenshot with #JutaBhejoPakistan pic.twitter.com/VzhKvDLq82
— Tajinder Bagga (@TajinderBagga) December 29, 2017
He also launched an online campaign requesting the "nationalists" to send slippers to Pakistan.
"Over a hundred people sent footwear to Pakistan High Commission within a few hours after I did it," he claimed.
Jadhav's mother and wife met him on Monday inside the Pakistan Foreign Office building in Islamabad under unusual circumstances -- he was separated from the two women by a glass screen, and they conversed through an intercom.
In identical statements in both houses of Parliament, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said on Thursday there was "serious and gross violation of human rights of the family members of Jadhav", who is on death row in Pakistan for alleged spying.
She flayed Pakistan for presenting the two women as "widows" during the meeting, and accused Islamabad of turning an emotional moment into "an instrument to further its propaganda."
Read: Pak’s behaviour disgusting; will expose them: Sushma on Jadhav-kin meet
She pointed out that Jadhav's mother and wife were forced to remove their mangalsutra, bindi and bangles and footwear, and even made to change their attire on the pretext of security.
