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India has powerfully condemned what it described arsenic a “blinkered analysis” made against it successful a United Nations study connected Myanmar’s quality rights situation, adjacent arsenic it reiterated its telephone for an contiguous cessation of unit and inclusive governmental dialog successful the neighbouring country.
Delivering India’s connection during the Interactive Dialogue connected the quality rights concern successful Myanmar astatine the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly connected Tuesday (October 28, 2025), Lok Sabha MP Dilip Saikia said New Delhi continues to enactment each initiatives aimed astatine fostering spot and advancing a “Myanmar-owned and Myanmar-led path” toward peace, stability, and democracy.
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➡️ Urged the contiguous cessation of unit and the initiation of an inclusive governmental dialogue.
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“We reiterate our accordant presumption calling for an contiguous cessation of violence, merchandise of governmental prisoners, unhindered transportation of humanitarian assistance and inclusive governmental dialogue,” helium said.
The UN’s Third Committee, which deals with quality rights and humanitarian issues, was debating the worsening concern successful Myanmar pursuing the 2021 subject coup and ongoing unit betwixt the junta and absorption forces.
Mr. Saikia, who is portion of a multi-party delegation led by BJP MP Daggubati Purandeswari to correspond India astatine the 80th United Nations General Assembly, said India has “consistently emphasised a people-centric approach” successful its engagement with Myanmar.
Strongly criticising the remarks made by the UN Special Rapporteur against India successful its study connected Myanmar’s quality rights situation, helium said, “I explicit superior objections to the baseless and biased reflection successful the study regarding my country.”
Mr. Saikia said the assertion linking the April 2025 violent onslaught successful Pahalgam with displaced persons from Myanmar has perfectly nary factual bearing.
“My state rejects specified prejudice and blinkered investigation by the Special Rapporteur,” helium said.
The parliamentarian stressed that the deteriorating information and humanitarian concern successful Myanmar remains a “matter of heavy concern” for India, peculiarly due to the fact that of its “cross-border implications,” including the challenges posed by “transnational crimes specified arsenic drug, arms, and quality trafficking.”
He cautioned that India has observed an “alarming level of radicalisation” among immoderate displaced persons, starring to “pressure and interaction connected the instrumentality and bid situation”.
Urging the UN adept not to trust connected “unverified and skewed media reports whose sole intent appears to beryllium maligning” India, Mr. Saikia underscored that the state is location to implicit 200 cardinal Muslims, which is astir 10% of the world’s Muslim population, surviving successful harmony with radical of each faiths.
Citing caller examples, the BJP MP from Darrang-Udalguri successful Assam, noted that pursuing the March 2025 earthquake, India promptly launched Operation Brahma, dispatching implicit 1,000 metric tonnes of alleviation materials and deploying aesculapian teams arsenic the archetypal responder.
“This built upon our earlier humanitarian initiatives, including Operation Sahayata during Typhoon Hiyaki and India’s continuous assistance during erstwhile earthy calamities,” helium added.
The parliamentarian reaffirmed India's committedness to bid and stableness successful the region, its engagement with ASEAN, and continued enactment to the UN Secretary-General’s efforts to facilitate a peaceful solution for the radical of Myanmar.
India has sent 2 multi-party delegations to the 80th General Assembly.
The archetypal group, headed by P.P. Chaudhary, was successful New York betwixt October 8 and October 14, portion the Purandeswari-led squad arrived connected October 27.
Besides Saikia, the different members of the delegation see V. D. Sharma, Dilip Saikia, Rekha Sharma of the BJP, RJD's Manoj Kumar Jha, DMK's P Wilson, TMC(M)’s G K Vasan and AAP's Sandeep Kumar Pathak, among others.
