Uk General Election 2015

[garch]

UK General election less then a year away so its won't be long before politicians come brown-nosing to our gurdware/homes/etc.

Shouldn't we:

- prepare collectively for this and create a sikh mandate?

- start our own campaigns to gain support from at least the Sikh voter and then non-sikhs

- all start writing/tweeting/facebooking to push our agenda?

- Bhai Jugraj singh if your reading I'd say your the ideal person engage youth on this..

I'm sure most will agree on the above, but what your thoughts? Anyone responding can you answer the following three questions?

1. 'What' should we push for? (our policies/demands)

2. 'Why'? (For each point)

3. And 'how' can we promote our agenda?

[West London Singh]

It's about time we started thinking deeply about this.

Lets look at the 2 areas in west London which, added together, arguably have the highest numerical number of Sikhs in the country. In both these areas (Southall and Hounslow) the sitting MP died and the Labour Party treated us Sikhs with utter contempt by deliberately imposing an India-friendly Hindu as the candidate for election. Their message to us Sikhs was that we are not intelligent enough to be MP's and only a Hindu could best serve our interest.

The Hindu the Labour Party imposed on us in Hounslow didn't even have a single connection with Hounslow itself. She and her family live and always did live in central London as a millionaiire family. Her only qualification, as far as the Labour party were concerned, was that she would be India friendly and the Sikhs would be easily manipulated into electing her. Which, fair dues to the Labour Party, we proved them right...we are easily manipulated.

Last year, when Britain's involvement in 1984 was exposed, hundreds of MP's of various parties signed their name to a motion to discover the truth. The one name missing from that motion was Seema Malhotra, our MP. These 2 Hindu MP's of Southall and Hounslow have never once uttered a word on behalf of Sikhs and justice. Instead, we UK Sikhs have had to rely on either white Labour MP's or moneh Sikh MP's representing the Tories.

We, collectively, need to send a strong clear message to the Labour Party. We need to remind them that we are not the easily manipulated unpadhs that they take us for.

In a nutshell, these 2 constituencies can be summed up as areas full of Sikhs and Muslims with concerns about Indian atrocities in Punjab and Kashmir, being represented by a representative of India that will never, in a million years, raise any concerns about their beloved India.

There is only one solution to this. Either as part of the Respect Party or simply as Independants, the Sikhs and Muslims of Southall and Hounslow need to organise together and put up Independant candidates in both ridings on a platform of justice and human rights concerns in both Punjab and Kashmir. Both those representatives of India in Southall and Hounslow (Sharma and Malhotra) need to be kicked out.

A clear message needs to be sent to the Labour Party. Because we let them do that to us in Southall they did it to us again in Hounslow 2 years later. It has become official policy in the Labour Party for candidates to be appointed by a committee in Walworth Road. It is clear that being India friendly is a priority for that unseen committee in party HQ. Unless we put a stop to it they will continue to do it.

[garch]

Agree own candidates would be great in areas with dense sikh population's, but where we don't have majorities we ought create vote banks to push our interests:

-open strong support for 84 inquiry,

-challenging tories for their insulting/patronising response to revelations this year

-regular and open condemnation of ongoing human rights absuses by indian state

Local issues:

-more support v grooming gangs

-better support for elderly support groups

-greater focus on crime targeting asian houses/ other high crime hotspots in our local areas / drugs use (cocaine/cannabis) rife amongst asian lads

-schemes to support homeless

-more support to get sikh value free schools off the ground.

MAIN ISSUE 84 ENQUIRY AND BLIND EYE TURNED WHEN INDIAN CORRUPTION VIOLATIONS CONCERNED.

I hope somebody (sikh council maybe), can organise a national pr campaign via local gurdware/radio/tv to influence voting - maybe recommending pro sikh mp's.

William Hague, David Cameron, baroness Warsi need some dunde from our media for their patronising behaviour this past year!

Time to show our singh/kaur spirit in our planning and actions over the next year!

Benti to my brothers and sisters our generation need to get proactive in pushing our agenda and awakening our sleeping siblings!!