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Award-winning presenter accuses
BBC of racial discrimination

An award-winning India-born radio presenter has accused her bosses in BBC of "bullying" and treating her as an "illiterate native" of the Raj years.

Fifty three-year-old Anand Jasani, who was appointed Member of the British Empire in 1998 for being a "cultural ambassador," is claiming racial discrimination against BBC, Wales.

The Independent, which carried the story, said that BBC denies the allegation.

Jasani, who has worked for the BBC for 15 years, told an industrial tribunal that a programme controller had dismissed her show as not serving a useful purpose.

"I have been a victim of slow and subtle persecution and I have been bullied on occasions by my male-dominated superiors who have behaved at times as though I was another example of an illiterate or unintelligent native of the Raj years," Jasani said.

"In brief, I have been a victim of unequal treatment, a lack of commitment, promotion and career development, condescension, apathy, and marginalisation," she told the tribunal on Tuesday.

She said her husband, a doctor, and their two daughters had worked without pay so that her show, 'A Voice For All,' would be ready for transmission each week.

Jasani said she was paid 267 pounds a week for putting the show together and was told that this figure should be considered as her salary and the budget for her programme.

PTI

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