A group of about 400 Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers staged demonstration outside the German consulate in Mumbai on Tuesday to protest false and provocative statements by members of a German delegation against Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. The BJP activists raised slogans slamming the German delegates outside the consulate office at Nariman Point in south Mumbai.

“A team of delegates consisting German members of parliament belonging to Christian Democratic Union (CDU) visited Gujarat a few days back. Although this delegation was on an unofficial visit, a few members passed comments on the anti-conversion law passed by the Gujarat assembly. They should not be commenting on the laws enacted by the sovereign republic of India,” said Atul Bhatkalkar, Mumbai unit general secretary of the BJP.

Bhatkalkar, with other members of the party, also met German Consul General Walter Spechel and submitted to him a memorandum demanding a retraction of the remarks and an unconditional apology from the delegation members. Bhatkalkar said Spechel assured them he would look into the matter.

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