Source: CBC News
By Jesse Johnston
This month marks 70 years since Sikhs were given the right to vote in British Columbia and two South Asian candidates want to mark the occasion by making a little history of their own on election day.
Liberal candidate Gurminder Parihar and NDP candidate Aman Singh are both trying to become the first turbaned Sikhs to hold seats in the B.C. Legislature.
Both men were out campaigning Saturday at the Vaisakhi festival in Surrey. The festival marks the birth of the Sikh faith and pays tribute to the beginning of the Punjabi harvest.
Liberal leader Christy Clark introduced Parihar to the predominantly South Asian crowd and got a loud ovation.
Categories: Canada, North America, Sikhism, The Muslim Times
Regarding the Sikh community I never forget the great hospitality granted to me on my visit to Qadian. I stayed in the house of the Deputy Mayor of Qadian with his extended family. First they wanted to give me a guest room on the top floor, but when they saw that my son had crutches (he had broken his foot during sports) a son vacated his own room on the ground floor and asked us to stay there. Well, that was just a minor gesture. The main gesture were the ‘Prathas’. ‘Alu-prathas’ (potato), ‘onion-prathas’, cauliflower prathas. The Jama’at sent us food from the guest house, but the host insisted that we should eat their own food as well! May Allah reward them greatly. (1994, when Hazrat Khalifatul Masih IV) was visiting Qadian for Jalsa also). (was it 1994?) (something like that…)