LONDON – Britain’s first turban-wearing Sikh parliamentarian TanmanjeetSingh Dhesi has said members of the Bahartya Janata Party (BJP) andRashtarya Savic Sinha (RSS) are threatening him.
RSS and BJP are campaigning against him in general election campaignbecause he spoke up for human rights of Kashmiris and other persecutedcommunities in India and elsewhere.
Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi became the first Labour MP three years to take oathin parliament wearing Sikh turban.
The Sikh MP has come under attack from Indian government supported groupcalled Overseas Friends of BJP (OFBJP), headed by its leader KuldeepShekhawat. The BJP and RSS’s front group has attacked 50 Labour MPs forsupporting the people of Kashmir and demanding right of self-determinationfor them.
BJP and RSS activists have leafleted against Tan Dhesi MP in Slough urgingHindu voters not to vote for the Sikh MP just because he spoke many timesfor the rights of Muslims in Kashmir, Palestine and Mayanmar.
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Talking to Geo News, Dhesi said that the Indian extremists in Britainbelonging to notorious Indian extremist organisations RSS and BJP arespreading hate and sectarianism against Labour MPs.
He said: “The RSS doesn’t want me to be in parliament because we fearlesslyspeak for human rights.” He said in reference to his intervention manytimes in the British parliament raising the issue of Kashmir.
