Mr. Terry Dicks {Hayes and Harlington): I wish to take this ‘opportunity attention of the House the plight of the Sikhs in India, an issue which I known t6 the Government, has not been raised in the Chamber for Government could well be due to embarrassment, to say the least:
Just prior to independence the Constituent Assembly in India agreed a package of proposals called the Objectives Resolution which guaranteed the autonomous status of Sikh ; Punjab. The British Government accepted the validity of the Objectives Resolution ‘and, on the strength of that, granted India independence in 1947, Unfortunately, Independence, the guarantees given to the Sikhs were not honored. And the constitution was changed to reject the interests of the Hindu majority.
Article extracted from this publication >> December 24, 1993
