INDIA PERSPECTIVE

India: major Indian media — Times of India, NDTV — cover the UK local elections with an eye on implications for the Indian diaspora in Britain, one of the country's largest communities. Times of India reports on a Reform UK candidate who made racist remarks about Nigerians yet was elected — the kind of fact that alarms minority communities. Indians in the UK had historically voted Conservative before shifting toward Labour under Starmer. Reform UK's rise, with its sharp positions on immigration, raises specific concerns. Sadiq Khan, London's mayor of Pakistani origin, is cited as an alarmed voice. New Delhi also watches how a politically destabilised UK will handle its commercial and diplomatic relations with India.