Kashmir issue: BJP leader thrown out of summit for trying to block Suri's speech

India faced yet another embarrassment on the diplomatic front when a leader of the country's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Vijay Jolly was thrown out of the Asia Pacific Summit 2019 in Cambodia.

According to details, National Assembly Deputy Speaker Qasim Suri Tuesday raised the Kashmir issue during his speech at the summit held in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Jolly, who is associated with the ruling right-wing BJP, was taken out of the hall where the summit was being held when he tried to block National Assembly Deputy Speaker Qasim Suri's speech on the Kashmir issue at the Asia Pacific Summit 2019.

As soon as Suri pointed out India's atrocities against the people of occupied Jammu and Kashmir, the Indian leader got out of his chair and walked towards the podium, yelling at the deputy speaker.

Swinging into action, security officials grabbed Jolly and took him out of the summit as Suri continued with his speech.

Suri completed his speech, vociferously highlighting Indian repression and unprecedented lockdown in the occupied valley since New Delhi's Aug 5 move of revoking the region's special status.

The deputy speaker, in his speech, said: "I want to direct your attention towards the human rights violations in Indian-occupied Kashmir. Almost 100,000 Kashmiris have been martyred and thousands are missing.

"More than 11,000 women have been raped. More than 8,000 unmarked graves have been found [of people] affected by Indian atrocities." He added that the occupied territory is under a strict curfew and a communications blackout has been in place for the past 106 days.

He also pointed out that the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has recorded usage of pellet guns, extrajudicial killings and torture of civilians by the Indian forces.

The entire occupied valley had been converted into a heavily militarised zone and people were being stopped from performing their religious rites, Suri said, according to a message received from Maldives.

The deputy speaker stressed upon the South Asian countries to support Kashmiris for their right to self-determination under the auspices of United Nations.

He reiterated Pakistan's stance for morally and diplomatically supporting Kashmiris, saying that the attitude of India towards Kashmir issue was putting South Asia peace and development at stake.

In a video clip, the Indian parliamentarian was seen pointing and yelling at the summit's participants sitting in the front row, when security guards came and took him outside the hall. Suri continued to speak despite the commotion.

Jolly can be seen gesturing to Suri and saying: "I voice my protest...Jammu and Kashmir is not a part of this summit...How can he say this. This is wrong; he cannot say this is a human rights violation". A voice in the crowd replies to him saying, "No let him speak". Jolly was then forcibly removed by security from the event. The video soon began doing the rounds on Twitter with users lambasting the Indian official over trying to prevent Suri from raising the Kashmir issue at the summit. Over 860 delegates from 40 countries attended the second edition of the intercontinental summit.