Indian MP demands £2.4trillion from UK insisting PM 'bend her knees and beg forgiveness

A FORMER Indian Minister of state has demanded the British Prime Minister “bend her knees and beg forgiveness” from India.

Shashi Tharoor, an MP and also an ex-minister of state, says Theresa May should say sorry for “the wrongs done by their forebears” during the 89 year colonial rule.

And he says that Britain did irreparable damage to India between 1858 and 1947 pointing to apologies that have previously been given by Germany to Poland for Nazi rule.

Mr Tharoor highlighted the infamous Jallianwala Bagh massacre where hundreds of protesters were killed by British soldiers in 1919 insisting the UK should apologise on the 100th anniversary in 2019.

He said: “You cannot quantify the wrongs done.

What is far more important than financial reparation would be an apology. 

People who are not responsible today for the wrongs done by their forebears in the past era should apologise nonetheless to people who are not the ones to whom wrong was done.

“Whoever the PM is on that centenary of that awful crime will not have been alive when the atrocity was committed, and certainly no British government of 2019 bears a shred of responsibility for that tragedy, but as a symbol of the nation that once allowed it to happen, the PM could atone for the past sins of his or her nation.”

Last year Dr Tharoor flew to the UK to make a speech at the Oxford union where he called for Britain to pay reparations to the country for its policies.

He recently released a book entitled ‘An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India,’ demanding that the UK pay India £2.4 trillion. 

He said: “These two apologies offer a model for the British prime minister on the centenary of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre to come to that site, bend her knees and beg for forgiveness for all the sins committed in the past.

“That I think will wash away in many ways the sense that there are wrongs that have not been acknowledged.”

Mr Tharoor also hit out at former Prime Minister David Cameron insisting his “mealy-mouthed” attempt at diplomatic relations “did not constitute an apology.”

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