Meet Preet Gill & Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi, the two Sikhs who made India proud in UK elections

[Premi5]

10 hours ago, ipledgeblue said:

Yeh, that's a bit of bummer if he is? What did he do for the community as a mayor?

I don't understand the first part of your post. The answer to the second question, is 'I don't know'. 

Maybe someone from Gravesend or who knows this guy well can answer

[ipledgeblue]

11 hours ago, Premi5 said:

I don't understand the first part of your post. The answer to the second question, is 'I don't know'. 

Maybe someone from Gravesend or who knows this guy well can answer

What I meant was it's a shame if he is.

Wikipedia entries:

He is the son of Jaspal Singh Dhesi, who runs a construction company in the UK, and who is the former president of Gurdwara Guru Nanak Darbar, in Gravesend, the largest Gurdwara in the UK.

Dhesi has a bachelor's degree in mathematics with management studies from University College London, studied applied statistics at Keble College, Oxford, and has a Master of Philosophy in the history and politics of South Asia from Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.^[1]

This seems really good, especially the MPhil he has South east Asia history.

But then the next paragraph is so dodgy.

In 2012, his mother, Dalwinder Kaur Dhesi, was jailed in India, for kidnap and forcing an abortion on a teenage mother, who later died.^[4][5]

I did some research regarding this, and this is regarding the girl involved with the ex SGPC president Jagir Kaur (was it her daughter or daughter in law).

So with the Dad being involved in Gurdwara committee, the Mum being involved in nefarious activity with an SGPC President - and the son is active in politics. As sikhs, I am sure we have learnt to be careful of all politicians including SGPC, Gurdwara committees and government. 

[DailyMail]

I thought everyone knew this about Dhesi? It's common knowledge. 

Jagir's Kaur's daughter was involved with another guy who came from a "different caste". 

How he will navigate through the forthcoming caste discrimination bill and associated debate, any debates about so called "honour" violence and/or killings remains to be seen.

[jkvlondon]

12 minutes ago, DailyMail said:

I thought everyone knew this about Dhesi? It's common knowledge. 

Jagir's Kaur's daughter was involved with another guy who came from a "different caste". 

How he will navigate through the forthcoming caste discrimination bill and associated debate, any debates about so called "honour" violence and/or killings remains to be seen.

Jagir Kaur's daughter was a married  woman By Anand Karaj , and was expecting her husband's child, on the pretext of recounciliation the girl let down her guard and this is when she was drugged  and kidnapped . The abortion was done on her in that state because of her unconscious state they didn't know things were going wrong until it was too late. So his Mum was an accompolice to kidnapping and manslaughter

[DailyMail]

So, it's even worse than I had been led to believe.

[ipledgeblue]

anyways, still this is the Son and he could be different. He is also part of Labour which I guess means they follow more liberal views as opposed to the Conservative party?

The press love putting Labour politicians down so it's better if this thing isn't too over-exposed as we need a Singh MP!

[DailyMail]

He has publicly stated that he supports his mother. Given that he is now a public servant, it is vital that the public are aware of his background in order to view his forthcoming stance on key issues through the prism of his mother's history.

It's not "putting labour politicians down", it's informing the public - that's the purpose of the press. Unless of course, you live in North Korea.

[Premi5]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/meet-man-whos-made-history-10648824.amp

Has family connections to Punjabi politics.

are there any issues affecting U.K. Sikhs either related to or not related to India/Punjab that we should be pushing him to look at?

 

[13Mirch]

And when these two sacrifice Panthic needs to political expediency then all their Sikh supporters can cry us a flood of biblical proportions. 

[Premi5]

6 hours ago, 13Mirch said:

And when these two sacrifice Panthic needs to political expediency then all their Sikh supporters can cry us a flood of biblical proportions. 

You're expecting this? Surely he is in politics to help others (including our community) and not for personal gain?