New Delhi: India on Monday denied visa to a British MP, critical of the government’s Article 370 move, after she landed at the New Delhi International Airport earlier today. Also Read - Despite All 'Pressure', we Stand by Our Decision on Article 370, Citizenship Amendment Act: PM Modi in Varanasi

Debbie Abrahams, who chairs a British Parliamentary group on Kashmir, is a member of the Labour Party which came under fire last year for passing a resolution on the region. Later, however, the remark was outrightly disowned by the Chair of the Labour Party with Corbyn himself admitting that the language of the resolution was ‘open to misinterpretation.‘ Also Read - J-K Has Witnessed Numerous Developments Post Abrogation of Article 370: PM Modi in Rajya Sabha

In a statement, Abrahams, who has been a member of the British Parliament since 2011, said that she was on a two-day personal visit to India. She arrived in the capital at 8:50 AM on Monday but was told by the airport officials that the e-visa issued last October and valid until October 2020, had been rejected. Also Read - Six Months of Article 370 Move: Sajjad Lone, Waheed Para Released From Detention

Remarking that she was ‘waiting to be deported,’ she went on to narrate her ‘ordeal’ in the statement, accusing the airport official who questioned her of being ‘very rude and aggressive’ and even shouting at her. She added that she got in touch with the British High Commission through the relative with whom she was supposed to stay, to find out what was going on but still didn’t get any answer.

Her social media pages are reported to have several anti-Article 37o posts and as the chair of the Parliamentary group on Kashmir, also wrote to the Indian envoy in the UK, expressing ‘grave concerns’ on the Article 370 move.

In a sudden move on August 5 last year, the Centre revoked Article 370 of the Constitution thus scrapping the special status to Jammu and Kashmir, which was further split into the union territories of Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh.