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Controversy marks Queen's India visit
NEW DELHI. Oct 13: Ceremonial cannons boomed in salute to welcome Britain's Queen Elizabeth II Monday on a visit marked by undiplomatic controversies even before it began. reports AP.
Wearing a deep pinto floral dress, pearls and white heels, the queen was led by a slow marching military escort to a guard of honor at the red sandstone presidential palace that was built during the 200 years of Britain's rule over India that ended 50 years ago.
At the far end of the sandy
courtyard where the ceremonies were held. a British spokeswoman read a statement by Foreign Secretary Robin Cook replying to an angry denunciation of Britain by India's prime minister for what he saw as unwarranted meddling in India's dispute with Pakistan over Kashmir.
"A third rate power has presumed to say that they have a historical responsibility to solve the Kashmir issue." Inder Kumar Gujral was quoted in Indian newspapers as saying in a private meeting Saturday with Egyptian intellectuals on a visit to Cairo.
Gujral allegedly said Britain was responsible for the Kashmir dispute in the first place, as a fallout of the partition of India when it ended its colonial rule in 1947.
The Indian Foreign Office issued a cautiously worded denial. saying the quotes attributed to Gujral "Are completely without foundation."
Gujral's alleged outburst followed reports that Cook, while in Pakistan, had renewed London's offer to mediate the
Kashmir dispute if both India and Pakistan asked it to.
India rejects any outside interference in Kashmir, while Pakistan wants the dispute resolved through the United Nations.
Since 1989, a secessionist war in Kashmir against Indian forces has left more than 16,000 dead. India accuses Pakistan of supporting the insurrection by arming and training the rebels and facilitating their infiltration across the border. Pakistan says its support of the Kashmir uprising is limited to diplomacy.
At the ceremony, cavalrymen on horseback, another British inheritance, lined up smartly in two rows as the queen was welcomed by the national anthems of the two nations.
There were smiles, as the queen, her husband the Duke of Edinburgh, India’s President KR Narayanan and Gujral posed for photographers at the beginning of her weeklong tour.
On Tuesday she visits the northern city of Amritsar,, where another controversy awaits her. Some Sikhs, an in-
fluential minority in India, want an apology for a 1919 massacre of more than 300 unarmed civilians by British soldiers, in an incident that gave popular momentum to the In-
On Sunday, police used water cannons to break up a demonstration in New Delhi of Sikhs demanding an apology, the latest in a series of protests. Britain has indicated the queen will not express verbal regret, but that the laying of a wreath at the memorial site should be seen as a gesture of reconciliation.
Gujral had suggested in an Interview with British Journalists that she should not visit Amritsar to avoid controversy.
Gen. Reginald Dyer ordered soldiers to fire on the civilians who were listening to Indian leaders campaigning for independence in the courtyard named Jallianwala Bagh. which had only one gate. Dyer said he wanted to prevent an uprising and he was exonerated by British authorities.
Mainstream Sikh organisations. mindful of the 1 million
Sikhs living in Britain, welcomed the Queen. Priests in Amritsar's Golden Temple planned an elaborated and enthusiastic welcome. An organisation of Sikh priests put advertisements in dailies praislr>,g her visit as a "grand gesture."
This was the Queen's th ird visit to India, but never before had her trips generated st.ich controversy. She was here.1 in 1961 and 1983.
Her first visit came when "India was still the former colony living out the nostalgia of the Raj days." said an 'editorial in Monday's Times pf India. "Today's India carries little or no baggage from Its colonial past." the daily said.
"Britain should prove to be a considerate guest, appreciative of the hospitality being laid out for the occasion without advis-
• ing the host on how its household should be run." the daily said.
Scuffles break; out as Queen vi sits nat'l muse inn
AFP adds: Minor scuffles broke out in New Delhi today as
Elizabeth visited India's al Museum at the start of the British monarch's six-day state visit to India.
About 20 men tried to rush the royal motorcade but were pushed back by police before being detained.
The protestors, claiming to belong to a group called the Young India Society, said they were protesting over the Queen n visit and over a massacre of civilians by British colonial troops in 1919 at Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar.
One of the group. Bhupinder Kumar, said: "This Queen should go back. We don't want her here after Jallianwala Bagh and 200 yards of crime. We are not bootlickers like other Indians."
Narendra Singh, a student, added: "Why is the government bringing her? She wants to colonise India for a second time."
Around 200 police were deployed around the museum, which is displaying a collection of world treasures loaned from Britain.