HUNDREDS of demonstrators gathered outside Downing Street yesterday in protest at the state visit by Hindu supremacist Indian Prime Minster Narendra Modi.

Mr Modi arrived in London yesterday morning. His opponents accuse him of promoting the “fascistic politics of hatred” in India and of presiding over systematic human-rights abuses.

A spokesman for the South Asia Solidarity Group, which organised the protest, said they were also protesting Mr Modi’s economic policies “in which labour laws are being swept aside, trade unions crushed, campaigning NGOs banned, and foreign and Indian corporations given a free hand to plunder and destroy the environment and indulge in massive human-rights abuses.”