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HISTORICAL FACTS: Kiwi mate you butter chicken apologise | History Defined

Shane Jones, New Zealand's minister for oceans and fisheries, is in troubled waters, having bitten off more than he can chew after his remark that the recently signed FTA between his country and India could bring migrants and a 'tsunami of butter chicken'.

His utterly butterly tsunami reference has created a toofan in the local desi kadai, and invited a barrage of ballyhoo, with an Indian-origin member of NZ parliament denouncing it as 'outright racism,' and a spokesperson for the community, describing it as 'incredibly worrying'.

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