Kapil’s Khichadi
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Some Indian voters felt that when Keir Starmer took over the leadership of the Labour Party that there might be a change in how it works with the Indian community. I had calls from high profile staunch Labour supporters trying their best to convince me that it was changing. In May 2020 I wrote a piece titled, ‘Labour fails Indians again’, it was my attempt to raise some of the issues and also point out that Starmer had a small window in which to disassociate Labour from the Pakistani lobby. He has failed.
His first error was to set up the COVID BAME group and fail to invite even a single Hindu organisation. We then witnessed the fiasco of Labour MPs writing to the Rt Hon Priti Patel MP in which they attempted to victimise the Home Secretary on race lines.An incredibly disgraceful act of wilful gaslighting.
Starmer of course went on to promote a number of his MPs who have been openly hostile to India (and many Indians feel them as well). Issues emerging for example revolve around Kashmir, again. There was a time when Indians felt that maybe Starmer would steer Labour away from the absurd position taken by the Party at their last conference. However, in reality it seems he says one thing to Indians and then gives a nod of approval to his Pakistani vote bank. Only last week we witnessed Labour Shadow International Development Secretary Preet Kaur Gill who seem to be suggesting that somehow Khalistanis had some unknown right of self-determination under some unknown UN resolution. Thank God for the voice of common sense in our Lord Rami Ranger who quickly tweeted, ‘Today, I spoke with the British Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. Boris Johnson MP who categorically assured me that British Government does not support Khalistan movement. Thank you PM.’.
Let me remind the Khalistanis of some historical truths. Guru Nanakji played a key role in getting the Ram Mandir decision for construction. The JanamSakhis of Guru Nanakji state that he went to Ram Janmabhoomi for Darshan of Shri Ram and this was used by the courts as evidence. Lord Ram is mentioned in the Guru Granth Sahib 2533 times, the only other divine name mentioned more times is Hari - 8344 times. In the final words of Sri Guru Granth Sahib, on page 1429, Guru Nanakji says: sang sakhAsabhtajiga-e ko-u nanibahi-O sAthkahunAnakihabipatmai Tek ekraghnAth- My companions and friends have all left me. None have remained with me to the last, in this calamity Raghunath is my only support.
In the same week Labour politicians undermined the building of the Shri Ram Mandir in Ayodhya. In their zeal to appease to the Muslim vote bank, they forgot that 500 years ago the "Babri Masjid" was built and named after the butcher Mughal emperor Babur. The genocidal atrocities committed by the Islamic invaders, forgotten because they murdered, raped and destroyed Hindus. The building of the Shri Ram Mandir is a step towards putting right, the wrongs of the past. Labour politicians should be supporting Ram Mandir, instead they have sided with the extremists.
In 2014 when I wrote. ‘Is Labour going Sharia?’, it raised many eyebrows. However, it seems to me at least that this Labour Party is now but an extension of Pakistani politics. To all Indians who are still members of, and still support the Labour Party, is it not time you woke up to the clear reality that is in front of you?
