There is more to this meeting than the political battle that is being fought over the issue. It is not a mere Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) versus Congress fight, making allegations against each other.

In 1998, Dalit Solidarity Network-UK (DSN-UK) was established, not by any Indian scheduled community member but Methodist minister David Haslam.

In 2000, DSN-UK expanded into International Dalit Solidarity Network (IDSN). Now, its headquarters is in Denmark. The DSN-UK was funded “primarily from Christian Aid, with additional support from the Methodist Relief and Development Fund and the Anglican USPG”.

In 2001, DSN-UK was sponsored by Christian Aid to lobby against the Indian government in the 2001 Durban Conference.

In 2004, DSN-UK had become powerful enough to use the International Development Committee of the UK Parliament to raise caste issues with the government of India during the committee's visit to the country. In the same year, DSN-UK also held a meeting in the Labour Party Conference.

In 2005, an organisation called London Institute of South Asia (LISA), which was run by late retired Brigadier of Pakistan Army Usman Khalid, honoured V T Rajshekar, the editor of the virulently-racist anti-semitic and anti-Hindu magazine Dalit Voice with an international award.

Brig Khalid was widely known as an agent of Pakistani intelligence. However, top officials in Islamabad have denied it, particularly after it was alleged that Brig Khalid was the one to reveal the hideout of Osama bin Laden to the US intelligence. The language that LISA used on its website then in 2005 is astoundingly similar to the language later author Arundhati Roy and far-left 'intellectuals' would use.

For example, consider this: