Browsing Tag: Sikh Manifesto

The impression from Sikh diaspora countries is that, at last, British Sikhs are getting their political act together. While the Sikh Manifesto promotes united action by UK Sikhs under ten points, it also encourages global Sikh communities to play a more prominent public role in their adopted countries.

To support & raise the awareness of the Sikh Manifesto with politicians, Gurdwaras, communities, Sikhs & Non Sikhs within the UK.

The Sikh Federation however points to Labour’s slender 42-vote victory over the Conservatives in 2010 as evidence that 150 votes could make all the difference.

Read the full manifesto: The manifesto is a political plan to achieve goals that are important to Sikhs especially in the UK.

Labour’s Ed Miliband said: “I think the Sikh Manifesto is a great way of empowering the British Sikh community.”

The Sikh Federation said it wanted to use the ‘voting clout’ of the community to secure an investigation into the massacre at the Golden Temple in Amritsar in 1984 among other things.

Other pogroms are mentioned in passing; but the presenter keeps talking to the same, articulate four or five, Jewish speakers about the Holocaust. In fact, as is often noticeable, the cameras seem to avoid the turban wearing Sikh in the discussion group.