Lok Janshakti Party headed by Union minister Ram Vilas Paswan on January 17 staged a demonstration against Israel’s attacks in Gaza and submitted a memorandum to the President demanding that India sever relations with Israel.
LJP office-bearers said in a statement issued later that “The calculated and meticulously planned attacks on the Gaza strip are nothing short of terror unleashed on the vast humanity of Gaza where hundreds of innocent, unarmed civilians, including children, have been killed and thousands maimed.”
In a memorandum to President Pratibha Patil, the party demanded that India “as a responsible democracy should not only condemn this act of aggression by Israel, but also immediately severe all diplomatic ties with it.”