Haridwar: After China put a technical hold on the UN Security Council resolution to designate Masood Azhar of Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) as a global terrorist, Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev on Thursday said, “We should teach lesson to China by boycotting their products."
He added: "China does around Rs 20 lakh crore business with India, China is more worried about the economical loss rather than war and political pressures. I appeal to all the people of India that they should 100% boycott the products of China.”
The Al Qaeda Sanctions Committee members had 10 working days to raise any objections to the proposal. China put a hold on the proposal just before the deadline to raise any objection to the move was coming to an end.
An inkling of China's stand on the issue came during its Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Lu Kang's press conferences on Monday and Wednesday in Beijing when he was asked about the proposal to list Azhar as a global terrorist by the UNSC.
In 2009, India moved a proposal by itself to designate Azhar. In 2016, India again moved the proposal with the P3 -- the United States, the United Kingdom and France -- in the UN's 1267 Sanctions Committee to ban Azhar, also the mastermind of the attack on the air base in Pathankot in January, 2016.
In 2017, the P3 nations moved a similar proposal again. However, on all occasions China, a veto-wielding permanent member of the UN Security Council, blocked the proposals from being adopted by the Sanctions Committee.
