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Delhi Sikhs protest ban on turban
in French schools in France

 

New Delhi, February 5, 2005
PTI

Various Sikh groups in the capital on Saturday submitted a memorandum to the French ambassador to lodge their protest against the ban on wearing turban by Sikh children in French schools.

The groups, led by Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) member Manmohan Singh Kochhar, held a demonstration against the turban ban at the Jantar Mantar in New Delhi and later submitted a memorandum to the French ambassador.

In the memorandum, Kochhar asked the French government to "scrap such ethnic laws which hit the dignity of the Sikhs at their very root."

Kochhar said they are also approaching all members of Parliament so that a resolution could be passed upholding the dignity of Sikhs.

The Sikh groups, including Youth Akali Dal (Delhi) and World Sikh Organisation, also urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to take up the issue with the French government so that all those Sikh children who have been expelled on this count could go back to their schools

 

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