Founded in 1987 by Amrit Wilson and her daughter Kalpana Wilson, South Asia Solidarity Group (SASG) has other members like a former LTTE member from Sri Lanka, Nirmala Rajasingham, Keval Bharadia, Saunvedan Aparanti, Sangeeta Kalia, and Shruti Iyer, currently pursuing Law from the University of Oxford. As per their website, SASG is an “anti-imperialist, anti-racist organisation based in Britain. We are committed to supporting, publicising, and building solidarity with people’s struggles for justice and democracy and against exploitation, gender and caste based oppression, imperialism, war and the so-called ‘war on terror’ in the countries of South Asia.” SASG is also part of International Solidarity for Academic Freedom in India (InSAF) and Awaaz Network.
Amrit Wilson is the mother of Kalpana Wilson and mother-in-law to Communist Party of India (Marxist-Liberation) (CPI-ML)’s Dipankar Bhattacharya and grandmother to Ananya Wilson Bhattacharya.
Nirmala Rajasingham is the founder of the Sri Lanka Democracy Forum. She is the sister of Rajani Thiranagama (nee Rajasingham) and aunt of Sharika Thiranagama wife of historian Thomas Blom Hansen. Both Nirmala and her sister Rajani Thiranagama were once a part of the Liberation of Tamil Tigers Elam (LTTE), a terrorist group in Sri Lanka. Nirmala Rajasingham belongs to a Tamil Christian family.
In 2025, SASG and its founders failed to condemn the terror attacks on Hindus in Pahalgam, Kashmir. Immediately after the attacks, SASG and its members diverted the attention from Hindus towards Muslims painting Kashmiris and Indian Muslims as the real victims. They also came in support of terrorists accused of the Pahalgam terror attack, government of India’s response to send back Pakistani nationals in India, and were against the suspension of Indus Water Treaty. In one of their posts on X, SASAG insinuated that the terror attack was another Pulwama like incident – a false flag operation.
Post the terror attack, when Indian Army was conducting operations to arrest the terrorists, it led to an incident where an over-ground-worker who was later revealed as Altaf Hussain Lalli, a top Lashkar-e-Taiba operative was killed during an encounter with the armed forces. SASG came out in support of the terrorist. As part of retaliation, government of India asked Pakistani nationals in India to return to Pakistan, some governments rounded up illegal immigrants to be deported. SASG called it humilation of Muslims claiming they are illegal immigrants. During Operation Sindoor, SASG ran a campaign to stop the war.
In February 2024, Islamist newsportal, Article 14 reported that SASG’s co-founder, Amrit Wilson had her OCI (Overseas Citizen of India) status revoked by Government of India for ““multiple anti-India activities” and engaged in “detrimental propaganda” against the Indian government, which were “inimical to the interests of the sovereignty and integrity of India””.
On Uttarakhand’s Haldwani issue where Muslims went on a rampage against the State government for following Court orders and demolished an unauthorised mosque and a madrassa, SASG shared an article authored by George Soros’s India representative, Harsh Mander, in an anti-Hindu news portal, Scroll.in, where he says Hindus in Uttarakhand are “ethnically cleansing” Muslims from Uttarakhand.
Opposing the adaptation and implementation of Constitutionally valid Uniform Civil Code in the state of Uttarakhand, SASG has vehemently oppose uniform civil laws because according to them they are “Muslims are the target”, “furthers a Hindu supremacist, patriarchal agenda and reinforces….gender inequality”.
While the group pretends to work for “South Asia” their entire campaign is against Hindus and India even when Hindus in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan are butchered everyday for being Hindus, their temples attacked, festivals disrupted and girls abducted, raped, forcibly converted and married off to their abductors. A report by Digital Forensics, Research and Analytical Centre (DFRAC) analyse how SASG led a sustained hate campaign against Hindus and India.
In 2022, SASG blamed Hindus in Leicester for violence against them even when there was overwhelming evidence on video and speeches made by Islamists against Hindus, Islamists calling for mobs from outside Leicester via Instagram, fake news peddled by ex-ISIS/AQ recruiters like Majid Freeman calling Hinduphobia to be “….comparable to White Lives Matter”. SASG also attacked Britain’s first Hindu Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, of Islamophobia, racism, poverty and Hindutva. Amrit Wilson has often appeared in panels and programmes organised by Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC), a group that been flagged by counter-terrorism groups to be associated closely with the current Iranian regime. IHRC has extended support to terror groups such as Hzbollah, Hamas and Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
SASG has a number of times previously denied the existence of hatred for Hindus or Hinduphobia. They claimed that Hinduohobia is a myth, has no historical or structural basis, is a spurious notion or is not a global phenomenon.
SASG have supported terrorists and sympathised with terror groups calling Afzal Guru ‘innocent’, LeT terrorist Burhan Wani’s killing as ‘extra-judicial execution’, called killing Lashkar e Tayyaba’s Ishrat Jahan as ‘murder’ by the Indian state and Khalistani terrorist, Jagtar Singh Johal‘s arrest as ‘unlawful’. SASG also have been working along with Khalistanis in the UK. From writing for Khalistani news portal ‘Sikh Siyasat‘, to protesting with them against Indian government in London, SASG have called for the release of Jagtar Singh Johal alias, Jaggi, a member of the terror group, Khalistan Liberation Front.
In a tweet on Pulwama attack, SASG quoted an article from the much maligned, The Wire, equated the death of Indian security forces with the death of terrorist and Pulwama bomber, Adil Ahmed Dar. SASG also gave a free-pass to terrorist Adil Ahmed Dar while trying the pin the blame of the attacks on the Indian government. They shared an written by CPI(ML) which essentially accused the Indian government of conducting a “false flag operation” in Pulwama to win the upcoming state elections.
Like any Hindu hater on social media who resorts to making ‘cow mutra’, ‘cow dung’ jibes, SASG too had made such jibes at Hindus and India. Such jibes were also made by terrorist and Pulwama suicide bomber, Adil Ahmed Dar.
SASG have been campaigning for the separation of Kashmir from India. They have built and propagated false and fabricated stories of human rights abuses by Indian army forces via campaigns, vigils, events, and protests. They objected to UK’s Labour leader, Keir Starmer’s assertion that “….Kashmir is “a matter for the Indian Parliament”” and have accused the leader of forming ties with Hindu Forum of Britain (HFB) who SASG accuses of being closely linked with “far-right and Hindu supremacist government in India”. Calling the abrogation of Article 370 and 35A “illegal” and against India’s Constitution, in another article SASG said “……..non-Kashmiri settlers will be able to take over the land”. They concluded the article with the words:
We believe that one day Kashmir will be free as an independent country - not occupied by India or Pakistan. South Asia Solidarity Group, Stand with Kashmir against military occupation and colonialism, 6th August 2019, Counterfire.org
They have often called India’s presence in Kashmir as “occupation”, “settler-colonialism“, “illegal annexation”, “under siege”, “repression”, “religious genocide” and “land grabbers” along with liberally using the #FreeKashmir hashtag.
In the recent Hamas terror attack on Jews in Israel, SASG came out in support of Palestine and their rape and murder of Jews women and families. They have often eqauted India with Israel and Hindutva with Zionism along with calling India and Israel as ‘fascist state’, occupier and settler.
Equating Palestine with Kashmir, SASG have made anti-Semitic statements like “From River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free”. Along with anti-Semitic calls, SASG have also accused UK’s current PM, Rishi Sunak, former Minister Priti Patel and Alok Sharma as “acolytes of Modi”.
The right-wing UK government ministers Priti Patel, Rishi Sunak and Alok Sharma are all acolytes of Modi, and the HSS (the international wing of the openly fascist RSS, of which Modi is a lifelong member) and other Hindu-supremacist organisations are actively spreading hate in the UK”. South Asia Solidarity Group, Resign Modi; Activists drop banner on London’s Westminster Bridge, 15th August 2021, Maktoob Media
SASG also added fuel to fire during the farmers protests, fanned the ‘ethnic Muslim cleansing‘ calls internationally for passing the humane Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), protested against setting up of Sterlite copper plant in Thoothukudi, supported Church-backed protests against setting up of Kundankulam nuclear power plant, protested against removing Mohammed Ali Jinnah’s portrait from Aligarh Muslim University, supported and promoted the bigoted ‘Dismantling Global Hindutva’ conference in 2021.
SASG ran a ‘Reclaim Diwali’ event in 2015 for ‘secular’ celebrations of the Hindu festival of Deepavali.
Below are some of their social media posts.
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