Browsing Tag: Election

What I am going to describe is not unusual and is not so dissimilar from the Republican Party’s mess today. A friend of mine is involved in a Midwestern gurduara that is going through the usual yearly conniptions on managerial structure.

A new era began in Calgary on the night of October 19, 2013 when it was announced that the 18 member slate from the local Sikh Youth, who contended for the first time, won the Dashmesh Culture Center elections ....

With the national capital being virtually under siege of the Punjab government, temperature is rising in Delhi’s Sikh religio-political matrix.

Sikhs across the United States have expressed their elation at President Barack Obama’s re-election.

I just wanted to share this quick but comprehensive list of what the Obama Administration has done for our community. From reading it, I believe it will become clear that President Obama is by far the candidate most likely to advance Sikh American issues.

...we sent the major candidates of California’s 9th Congressional District a questionnaire to learn more about their positions on Sikh American-related issues. Both candidates responded. However, the nature of the responses received were quite different.

Pritty is the externalization of someone who is well integrated in Sint-Truiden. She has succeeded in its original culture retain and adequately adapt to the Belgian and Sint-Truiden culture. They know perfectly both to reconcile. In short, a model for the integration policies in Sint-Truiden, even though this is the first of its own merit.

Jazmine Kaur Mann (UK Youth Parliament MP for Leicester) got elected with massive 57% of the vote, the other 43% was shared by the other 4 candidates. Vaheguru!

The LSA is helping Jazmine with her election campaign for the UK Youth Parliament (UKYP). Jazmine will be at a number of Gurdwaras this weekend campaigning along with an appearance on the Sikh channel.

Setting aside speculation over the leadership issue, the Shiromani Akali Dal Thursday unanimously elected Parkash Singh Badal to be the party's legislature party leader. Badal will be sworn in next week as Punjab chief minister for a record fifth term.

The Akali Dal and ally BJP returned to power in Punjab today, bucking a 46-year-old trend with a victory that signalled the state may have finally buried the ghost of its troubled past and embraced the road to development.

The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC), the Sikhs' apex body which was formed after innumerable sacrifices during the gurdwara reforms struggle, now faces an unprecedented challenge to its existence.

"The crisis in Punjab is very deep," said Sanjay Sharma, the regional bureau chief for the Times of India newspaper. Since the early 1990s, successive state governments had failed to grasp the importance of industrialization, he said.

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.

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.

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.

Harman believes in giving back to the community. He is well versed in the issues facing public education and feels it's his civic duty to draw on his personal experience and professional expertise so he can contribute and give back to Burnaby. He knows the value of a supportive community and the benefits a quality public education can bring.

Justice S S Nijjar, one of the two Supreme Court judges on the bench scheduled to hear a petition filed by the Sehajdhari Sikh Federation in connection with the voting rights of Sehajdhari Sikhs in the September 18 SPGC polls, chose to withdraw from hearing the case.

With the Panthic parties bracing up to battle it out in the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) elections on September 18, numerous Panthic issues — that actually matters to the Sikh community — are still hanging fire.

What has kabaddi got to do with the Sikh Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) elections, popularly known as the mini parliament of Sikhs?

Though considered apolitical, the SGPC elections are always fought on political lines. The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), the ruling party in Punjab, had backed Avtar Singh Makkar for the coveted post. SGPC president and SAD spokesperson cited "political compulsions" for their failure to reserve seats for women this time.

In the Council election of Barking and Dagenham, 5 Punjabi Sikhs have been successful. They endorse our multi-racial, multi-cultural community of which we should all be proud.

More than 700 people flocked to the Milan Banqueting Hall, The Green, Southall, last Thursday evening as Southall Conservatives launched their team for next year’s Council elections.

Sonia Gandhi says she adores Manmohan Singh for the manner in which he handles the government

We are ready to join in this journey with Barack Obama in building brighter future for all Americans and this requires each one of us to have faith in this nation and and commitment to sacrifice for the greater good of everyone.

Aasra Magazine went behind the scenes to talk to Michelle Gregoire and to know more about her mother, the wife and the Leader.

User shares an analogue on the different strategies of politics.

PM Manmohan Singh's reply to the debate on the Motion of Confidence in the Lok Sabha July 22, 2008.

"They wanted me to behave like a bonded slave", Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said referring to leaders of the Left parties.

As the tick tock began for the make or break trust vote, prayers were held at several places in Punjab on Sunday for continuation of the UPA government led by Manmohan Singh.