A British legislature declared that it was fired of a ministerial position by Conservative government of Prime Minister Boris Johnson partly because its fe muslimto bother his colleagues, reported Sunday Times.
The accusation contributes to the turmoil the Johnson government is experiencing due to the parties held in his Downing Street office during severe covid restrictions.
Nusrat Ghani, 49 years oldthat she lost her post as Minister of Transport in February 2020told the newspaper that a whip -a person in charge of assuring parliamentary discipline- told him that his “Muslim status” was raised as an issue for his dismissal. The head of the government caucus, Mark Spencer, was whip to be the person who was the center of Ghani’s accusations.
“These accusations are completely false and I consider them defamatory,” he said on Twitter, adding: “I have never used those words that have been attributed to me.” Johnson met with Ghani to discuss the “extremely serious” demands in July 2020, a spokesman for the prime minister’s office said on Sunday. “He then wrote to her and expressed his serious concern and invited her to start a formal complaints process,” the spokesperson said. “She did not do it later,” he argued, adding: “The Conservative Party does not tolerate prejudice or discrimination of any kind.”
“Uncomfortable” colleagues
Ghani he said in response that the Conservative Party’s complaint process was “highly inappropriate” because his dismissal was related to his position in government, and not in the party. “This is not the time I would have chosen for it to come to light and I followed every path and process I thought was available, but many people knew what had happened,” he said in a statement. added.
“I was informed that at the remodeling meeting in Downingstraat “Being a Muslim was raised as a problem, that my status as a ‘Muslim minister’ made colleagues uncomfortable,” the newspaper quotes.
“I am not going to pretend that it did not shake my faith in the party and I have at times seriously considered whether I should continue as MP.
The Conservative Party he had previously faced accusations of Islamophobia, and a May report last year criticized him for handling complaints of discrimination against Muslims.
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The report also led Johnson to apologize for any wrongdoing caused by his previous remarks on Islam, including a newspaper article in which he referred to women carrying burkas as “walking around and looking like letterboxes”. Labor’s main opposition leader, Keir Starmer, said the Conservatives should investigate Ghani’s account immediately. “It’s shocking to read,” he said on Twitter.
Reference-www.elperiodico.com