In your paper recently you have reported that the House of Lord’s will discuss the greater support received by the Conservative party from the Hindu voters.
May I tell you, that Hindus (not Indians as such) were greatly disappointed with the Labour party because of their meddling in the Indian and Hindu affairs on two counts.
First, they were fully supporting Pakistan on Kashmir issue. Second, Labour interfered with Hindu personal law regarding our caste system which was stemmed by the Conservatives. Same on Kashmir. The Conservative party became our natural preference for the above reasons. And, also Hindu culture of entrepreneurship and business is in line with the Conservative party.
Let me also add another phenomenon. We run a “Hindu Heritage Forum; with 60 members of highly intellectual group of Hindus comprising of many doctors, engineers, accountants, lawyers, barristers, directors and partners in the City of London, etc. Many of our members went door to door canvassing for the Conservatives.
Hindus and the Conservative party have the same culture of entrepreneurship, free trade, democratic way of life, freedom to worship, etc.
I would say quite candidly that our small Hindu unit has a clout of over a thousand voters who voted en masse for the Conservatives. And perhaps will do so as long as we Hindus are looked after equally well.
Pran Aggarwal MAFCA
Stanmore
