'Things do get under my skin': Jaishankar opens up on violence outside Indian High Commission in UK

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Recalling the violence that erupted outside the Indian High Commission in London, India's External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said "things do get under my skin" when India doesn't get respect..

He was speaking about a group of Khalistan supporters who demonstrated outside the Indian Mission in the UK, sloganeered with flags and posters of Khalistani separatist Amritpal Singh in March...

Videos on social media platforms showed a man scaling the walls of the High Commission to bring down the Indian flag to the chants of 'Khalistan Zindabad'...

We have had conversations with the British government on this, Jaishankar had said.. India later lodged a strong protest with the UK authorities by summoning British Deputy High Commissioner Christina Scott to the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Sunday night...

Meanwhile, on June 15, Avtar Singh Purba alias Khanda, a prominent pro-Khalistani activist who was involved in the attack on the Indian High Commission in London, died at a hospital in Birmingham due to prolonged illness...

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