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 get together had sought to make use of Parliamentary debate to drive the institution of a brand new nationwide inquiry into widespread sexual abuse of primarily white British ladies by males of largely Pakistani origin in numerous northern English cities, spanning a number of a long time.
Ms Chaturvedi objected to Britain’s Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s assertion on Monday wherein 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 strain 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 a substitute said that the precedence needs to be on taking implementing suggestions from a earlier, intensive seven-year inquiry, which offered almost two dozen ideas on tackling the difficulty.
The main target 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 at school, calling it a part of wider efforts to guard susceptible children.
The youngsters’s invoice was launched and backed by UK lawmakers months after the case of 10-year-old British-Pakistan lady Sara Sharif was discovered useless in her residence outdoors London in August 2023 with intensive accidents together with damaged bones, burns and even chew 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 Youngsters’s Wellbeing and Faculties Invoice to the following stage of the parliamentary course of with out the necessity for an additional formal vote.