With increasing regularity, India is facing comments from abroad expressing concern and criticising the government for failing to keep its commitments on democratic freedoms, religious freedoms, media freedoms, and so on. Just in the past week there were a number of such statements- many of them eliciting strong reactions from the Ministry of External Affairs:
1. UN High Commission for Human Rights criticised India’s detention of 3 activists who had criticised the government over the 2002 Gujarat riots investigation
The MEA issued a statement calling the comments “unwarranted” and an “interference” in India’s judicial system.
