New Delhi:
Rajya Sabha MP Priyanka Chaturvedi mentioned the blame for grooming gangs in UK can’t be laid on Asia, however “one rogue nation” Pakistan, a press release SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk mentioned was “true”.
Her assertion got here on a day the UK’s opposition Conservative celebration had sought to make use of Parliamentary debate to pressure the institution of a brand new nationwide inquiry into widespread sexual abuse of primarily white British ladies by males of principally Pakistani origin in varied northern English cities, spanning a number of many years.
Ms Chaturvedi objected to Britain’s Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s assertion on Monday by which he mentioned that in his time as head of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) between 2008 and 2013, he had introduced the primary prosecution of an Asian grooming gang.
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The grooming gangs row has elevated the stress on Mr Starmer, who was CPS on the time of the scandals. He hit out this week at “lies and misinformation” across the problem.
Mr Musk has over the previous week made repeated assaults towards Mr Starmer, with the latter rejecting requires the brand new inquiry. He as an alternative said that the precedence ought to be on taking implementing suggestions from a earlier, in depth seven-year inquiry, which offered almost two dozen strategies on tackling the difficulty.
The main focus within the UK was additionally on the youngsters’s invoice, which might require all native authorities to carry a register of youngsters who will not be in class, calling it a part of wider efforts to guard weak kids.
The kids’s invoice was launched and backed by UK lawmakers months after the case of 10-year-old British-Pakistan woman Sara Sharif was discovered useless in her house outdoors London in August 2023 with in depth accidents together with damaged bones, burns and even chunk marks after being subjected to years of abuse. Her father Urfan Sharif and step-mother Beinash Batool have been convicted of her homicide final month and given life sentences in jail.
MPs progressed the Kids’s Wellbeing and Colleges Invoice to the following stage of the parliamentary course of with out the necessity for an extra formal vote.