INDIA-GULF TRADE FEARS OVER PROPHET MOHAMMED ROW REFLECT LONG-TERM DIPLOMATIC CONCERNS FOR INDIAN EXPORTERS
June 30th, 2022
A campaign to boycott Indian products in Islamic countries because of anti-Muslim comments made by leaders of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) may have died down for now but given the continuing Hindu-Muslim tensions in India, the risk of future supply disruption remains, warn economists.
“Considering the political situation in India, there is a great possibility that another Islamophobic [comment] could come from the ruling party or its supporters, then once again there … could be a public backlash against Indian products,” Sushant Singh, a ...
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