Ukip youth leader Sanya-Jeet Thandi resigns over racism row

Sanya-Jeet Thandi

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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Sanya-Jeet ThandiBritish Asian U.K. Independence Party youth leader has resigned due to its “form of racist populism”.

Ukip have to suffer another embarrassment after Sanya-Jeet Thandi – who chaired Ukip’s youth wing in London, said the anti-Brussels party was going in a “terrifying” direction and she could no longer support it.

Ms Thandi has criticised party’s recently anti-immigrant campaign and the way they are trying to “exploit the ignorance in British society”: “The direction in which the party is going is terrifying: UKIP has descended into a form of racist populism that I cannot bring myself to vote for.

“This week I decided to leave the party and I will abstain from voting in the upcoming European elections. I urge other UKIP supporters to do the same.”

She has also added: “I understand that British politics in the 21st Century has become a dirty game of populism, but UKIP is straying further and further from the policies that attracted so many of its original supporters, instead cynically pursuing ever more aggressive anti-immigrant rhetoric.”

In the mean-time, a UKIP source has said Ms Thandi was free “to speak her opinions”. However, those views are not worthy enough to be considered.

They have further told that the party’s popularity was growing at a “rate of knots” and one member leaving would not impact the outcomes.

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