A lobby claiming to represent 400,000 so-called low-caste people is claiming the rest of the Hindus are discriminating against them (Report, 30 July). The Hindu population in the UK does not have the economic or political power to discriminate against anyone even if it wanted to. How can 400,000 people be discriminated against by a minority faith? The government-commissioned NIESR report on caste discrimination found no evidence of it. The proposed law to ban caste discrimination will open a Pandora's box in which innocent Hindus will be accused of caste discrimination and every institution in the country will have to bring in measures to comply with a useless piece of legislation. This country has sufficient anti-discrimination laws to tackle any injustice. An alliance of evangelical groups, caste activists and some leftwing politicians are attempting to bring India's politics to this country.
Nitin Mehta
Croydon
