Browsing Tag: Politics

From the margin: Sikhs want a Senate seat reserved for community

“We currently have no representative in the National Assembly or in the Sindh Assembly,” explained the chairman of the Sikh Naujwan Sabha Pakistan, Sardar Ramesh Singh, while talking to The Express Tribune. This is one of the points they brought up at the meeting. One of their demands is that a seat be reserved for Sikhs in the upcoming senate elections.
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Has ‘sensitive’ India lost its sense of humour?

The expressions of hurt and outrage in India that followed recent jokes by late-night comedian Jay Leno and the hosts of the BBC program Top Gear, along with treason charges against a cartoonist, have sparked a debate here: Is the nation too thin-skinned to take a joke?
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How Kairon changed the face of Punjab

A Chief Minister of Punjab for more than eight consecutive years, Partap Singh Kairon turned Punjab into an economic powerhouse. A no-nonsense administrator, he did not let procedures come in the way. The death anniversary of this builder of modern Punjab falls today (February 6.)
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New Mexico Annual Legislative Luncheon

..the Sikh Community hosted its 18th annual New Mexico Legislative Luncheon to thank and honor the dedicated public servants of New Mexico for their hard work and service. The tradition of the Annual Luncheon, following the Opening Day of the New Mexico Legislature where the Governor...
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Rival reveres ‘uncle’ Singh

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh may no longer be king for the Congress in Punjab but to the party's opponents, he is above criticism. At least in public. The ruling Shiromani Akali Dal mentions Singh in reverential tones and, in a strategy that suits it, treats him as someone above party politics.
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Punjab goes to polls today; Third front may play spoilsport

The people, in turn, have to choose between two fighting families, that of the Badals and the Singhs, the rulers of erstwhile Patiala princely state from where Amarinder Singh comes and only those parties where ideology has ceased to be and dynastic power has become a norm.
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Poster Campaign ~ Message to Voters [OP-ED]

Freedom, justice, fight against drugs and alcohol, education, jobs, healthcare, access to clean water, are just some of the subjects covered in the IPD Punjab Poll Poster campaign. These targeted areas will hopefully get people thinking about the necessity of voting in these State elections.
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Indira assassin’s son to contest polls

Although Sarabjit does not denounce the circumstances and context in which his father chose to kill the former prime minister, yet, he “detests any form of violence”. Sarabjit believes his father, a Delhi police sub-inspector, killed Mrs Gandhi to avenge the Army action on the Golden Temple in June 1984.
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Second turbaned Sikh becomes head of US city council

“I can’t think of a Sikh guy getting elected in many other communities,” Huja said. “There aren’t many Sikhs in Charlottesville… So I obviously didn’t get elected because of my religion. I got elected because I could be of service.”
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Sikhs find a new home in the city

OXFORD’s Sikh community has finally found a building to turn into a permanent home. They were previously thrown out of a three-bedroom house in Cherwell Drive, Marston, after using it as a temple without permission.
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