Browsing Tag: Elections

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It was expected that there would be SYV involvement in Surrey after their Vancouver campaign was jeopardized. However, it is not so. SYV has not and will not be involved in this election.

The petitioners had submitted that the original Act declared Sahjdhari Sikhs as qualified electors for SGPC elections and the apex court had in numerous judgments held the state could not regulate the definition of religion.

Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal) has won the SGPC elections only on the basis of patit votes — had they been cancelled, the result would have been different altogether, said SAD (Delhi) national president Paramjit Singh Sarna in Ludhiana on Wednesday.

Sikh men with trimmed beard & shorn hair find their names in electoral rolls, vote with élan, Sehajdharis too exercise their franchise.

The Shiromani Akali Dal President and Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal today said he had been deeply moved by the trust reposed by the Khalsa Panth in the programs and policies of the Shiromani Akali Dal in the just concluded SGPC elections.

Senior Sikh advocate practising in the supreme court H.S. Phoolka here today announced about the formation of independent groups in all the districts of Punjab led by Sikh advocates to keep watch on activities of all candidates contesting SGPC General election.

He said, “The candidates should see this as an opportunity to serve rather than using this position as a stepping stone for political ambition. Some percentage of candidates should come from various fields of education who can guide the community in the future and can contribute based oto their experience.”

Thanking the majority community for showing faith in the Sikhs in the recent Panchayat elections, chairman All Parties Sikh Coordination Committee (APSCC) Jagmohan Singh Raina urged the elected members to work for the uplift of the people.

Avtar Singh was re-elected the president of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) for a sixth successive term at the Teja Singh Samundri Hall here today. He was elected SGPC president for the first time in 2005...

The Vancouver Sikh Youth are fighting on issues for real change, which include making Sikh religion, philosophy and culture the forefront instead of old issues regarding tables and chairs.

With general elections underway in India, analysts are predicting yet another hung Parliament in which smaller parties could call the shots, anyone could be kingmaker and any kingmaker could be king.

It is the end of an era at Surrey's Guru Nanak Sikh Temple.

Sen. Barack Obama said he would expand federal hate-crime legislation and end religious profiling while Sen. John McCain remained mum on issues of particular concern to Sikhs.

United Sikhs Reminds Americans to Exercise Their Right to Vote on this Historic Election Day.

When we look at the way that many Americans have rallied behind their perception of Barack Obama as a symbol of ‘change’ and a changing America, could Navdeep Singh Bains play this same role in a future Canada?

“We (Punjabis) are more than half a million among 33 million Canadians. To have nine Punjabi-origin MPs in the 308-member parliament is our big achievement"

Punjab and Haryana High Court full bench to decide definition of a Sikh