Labour Party's Kashmir resolution may sound hostile to India: Corbyn

Britain's Opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has said that some of the language in a controversial Kashmir resolution passed by his party have the scope of being "misinterpreted as hostile to India" even as he stood by the emergency motion against the abrogation of Jammu and Kashmir's special status.

The UK Opposition Leader was responding to a letter by the Labour Friends of India (LFIN) group, among a number of party members to raise concerns over the resolution passed at the Labour Party annual conference last month that called for international intervention in Kashmir in the wake of the Indian government's revocation of Article 370.

"The emergency motion on Kashmir came through as part of the democratic process of the Labour Party Conference. However, there is a recognition that some of the language used within it could be misinterpreted as hostile to India and the Indian diaspora," Corbyn said in his reply to LFIN on Thursday.

"Labour understands the concerns the Indian community in Britain has about the

This remains our priority and I agree that we should not allow the politics of the sub-continent to divide communities in Britain, Corbyn noted

situation in Kashmir and takes these concerns very seriously," said Corbyn, who has been under pressure from Indian diaspora groups in Britain since the Labour Party passed the resolution.

The Labour leader goes on to stress that the party remains committed to ensuring that the rights of all citizens of Kashmir are "respected and upheld".

"This remains our priority and I agree that we should not allow the politics of the subcontinent to divide communities in Britain," he notes, adding that he is keen to build on the "historically good relationship" with India and the Indian diaspora.