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Indian nationalists in Britain called on to support the Tories
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi

INDIAN nationalists in Britain are supporting Tory candidates in 48 key marginal seats in the forthcoming general election.

Members of India’s ruling right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) party are urging people of Indian origin in Britain to vote for Tory candidates.

Overseas Friends of the BJP-UK (OFBJP-UK) president Kuldeep Singh Shekhawat said his group had identified 48 Labour-Conservative marginal seats which the British-Indian vote could swing, and was even trying to oust six Indian-origin Labour MPs.

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