Caste discrimination

Tuesday 16th May 2017 17:46 EDT
 

The Conservative party is on the verge of making caste discrimination illegal even though there is not a shrad of evidence that there is caste discrimination in the UK. The Hindu community would like all candidates from all major parties to declare their stand on this issue.

I ask Virendra Sharma, Seema Malhotra,Navin Shah, Priti Patel, Bob Blackman, Ameet Jogia, Kishan Devani, Barry Gardiner, Keith Vaz and others to tell us where they stand on this issue. Are they for or against this issue, If they are against will they make every effort to take it off the agenda of their parties?

This is important because this legislation has the potential to criminalise the whole of Hindu community as well as Sikhs and Jains. No party or candidates should take our votes for granted.

Theresa May has also announced that she supports fox hunting and will give a free vote in parliament for its reintroduction. By making this announcement the Conservatives are likely to lose tens of thousands of votes.

Vast majority of people in this country oppose fox hunting. Again we would like to hear from both Labour and Conservative candidates where they stand on this issue, I hope we will get a response from the candidates through the medium of Asian Voice.

Nitin Mehta

Croydon


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