Browsing Tag: Parliament

Wearing a traditional orange-coloured turban, Sardar Arora walked into the packed assembly hall.

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” - Dr. Martin Luther King

It's time to stand up. It's time to stand up and face our fears. It's time to stand up and discover the courage we never thought we had. It's time to stand up to change. To a positive revolution. A revolution that we as young people can be a part of. If I can do it, SO CAN YOU!

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.

Leaders and Members of Canadian Parliament crossing the party lines joined Sikhs in demanding India to abolish the death penalty. More than five thousand Sikhs from all over Canada gathered at Parliament Hill in solidarity with Bhai Balwant Singh Rajoana who is on death row in India.

A group for gay and transgender Sikhs in the UK has written to the prime minister and Lord Singh to protest the latter’s comments about equal marriage being a ‘secular attack’ on religion and to invite him to WorldPride.

Following the announcement in India to hang Balwant Singh Rajoana on 31 March 2012 few western politicians have issued statements condemning the death penalty in India.

Leading members of two more religious denominations have joined the attack on Government proposals to allow same-sex couples to marry.

In what will fulfill one of the long-pending demands of the Sikh community, the Union Home Ministry has given its nod to the Anand Marriage Bill, also known as the Anand Karaj Bill. This will allow Sikhs to get their marriages registered under the separate law.

The country's first turban-wearing Sikh peer has vowed to dispel prejudices about his religion that have increased in the wake of terrorist attacks on the West in the past decade.

As Sikhs we have a glorious history of commitment and sacrifice for uplifting ideals. It is important that we see this as inspiration to work for a better present and future, not simply for ourselves, but for all people in line with our Gurus' teachings.

The Dutch parliament voted on Tuesday to ban ritual slaughter of animals, a move strongly opposed by the country’s Muslim and Jewish minorities, but left a loophole that might let religious butchering continue. The bill by the small Animal Rights Party, the first such group in Europe to win seats in a national parliament, passed the lower house of parliament by 116 votes to 30.

Former New Delhi businessman Kanwaljit Singh Bakshi is the first Sikh member of the New Zealand parliament