Will champion the fight against racism, intolerance: Jaishankar on Oxford University racism row
New
Delhi,
Mar
15:
External
Affairs
Minister
S
Jaishankar
on
Monday
said
India
will
take
up
with
the
UK
when
required
the
alleged
incidents
of
racism
in
Britain.He
also
described
India
as
the
land
of
Mahatma
Gandhi
and
said
it
can
never
turn
its
eyes
away
from
racism.
"As land of Mahatma Gandhi, we can never ever turn our eyes away from racism. Particularly so when it is in a country where we have such a large diaspora. We've strong ties with UK. We'll take up such matters with great candour when required," he said.
"We will monitor these developments very very closely. We will raise it when required and we will always champion the fight against racism and other forms of intolerance," he added.
Rashmi Samant, Indian president-elect of Oxford student union quits over 'racist’ social media posts
Rashmi Samant, who made Oxford University history as the first Indian woman to be elected President of the Oxford Student Union (SU), has resigned from the post just days later amid controversy surrounding some of her past remarks and references.
Some of Samant's old social media posts had emerged, which were branded as "racist" and "insensitive".
These included a holocaust reference on a post during a visit to the Berlin Holocaust Memorial in Germany in 2017 and an Instagram caption on a picture of herself in Malaysia that read "Ching Chang", which upset Chinese students.
The 22-year-old also attracted criticism for a campaign post caption that separated women and trans women, with the Oxford LGBTQ+ campaign calling for her resignation.
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Samant, from Udupi in Karnataka, has since left for India to be with her family amid deep regret and many of her social media accounts have since been deleted.