INDIA PERSPECTIVE

India's major media outlets—Times of India, NDTV—cover the British local elections with an eye on implications for the Indian community in the United Kingdom, which represents one of the country's most significant diasporas. Times of India publishes an article on a Reform UK candidate who made racist remarks against Nigerians and was nonetheless elected—the kind of fact that alarmed minority communities. Indians in the United Kingdom had historically voted Conservative before shifting toward Labour under Starmer. Reform UK's rise, with its pointed positions on immigration, raises specific concerns. Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London and of Pakistani origin, is cited as an alarmed voice. New Delhi also observes how a politically destabilized United Kingdom will manage its commercial and diplomatic relations with India.