New Delhi: Once again a case of misrepresentation of the map of India on its website has come to the fore on behalf of the World Health Organization. WHO has shown Kashmir as part of Pakistan and China on its website. However, after strong objections from India regarding this, WHO has also taken action.
On Monday, India’s Minister of State for External Affairs V. Muraleedharan, while giving a written reply on this matter, said that the map of India was misrepresented on the website by the World Health Organization. As soon as the information was received, India reacted strongly to this and strongly raised this question. He told the House that in response, the WHO informed India’s Permanent Mission in Geneva that they had put a disclaimer on the portal.
It is worth noting that TMC MP Dr. Shantanu Sen had also written a letter to PM Narendra Modi expressing objection to the presenting of the map of India in a wrong way. In his letter, he had demanded to oppose this move of the World Health Organization at the international level.
This is not the first time that the map of India has been misrepresented by the WHO, even before it has been embroiled in a controversy regarding the map of India. This time the WHO had shown Jammu and Kashmir in two different colors. The state of Jammu and Kashmir was said to be part of Pakistan and China. Not only this, Shantanu Sen told the PM in his letter that the WHO also declared Arunachal Pradesh as a separate part of India.
