:dateline:In a press release, the Sikh Federation UK has asked upon Lord Singh to join other politicians in seeking an independent judge led�inquiry into the UK Government involvement in the 1984 invasion of Harmandir Sahib. �The federation stated that in contrast to claims by officials, including the the Earl of Courtown, relations between the Sikhs in India are the Indian Government are not an internal matter of the two groups.��
“There have been revelations that India successfully threatened�the UK Government with dire consequences for multi-billion pound trade deals�unless Sikhs in the UK were silenced. �Last month documents revealed Margaret Thatcher admitted as much to the�President of Pakistan at a meeting in Moscow in March 1985,” claimed the Sikh Federation UK.
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Federation secretary Gurjeet Singh stated that�the UK Government is not�interested in taking up this matter on the international stage because of trade�interests. �He asked Lord Singh to decide�what he will be doing next to secure a UN-led inquiry and if he can continue to�operate on his own.�
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In a press statement, Gurjeet Singh further alleged that it had commissioned a researcher to look at files in�the UK National Archives and build on the issue highlighted in the Sikh�Manifesto. �He claimed, “initial enquiries have shown�that the National Archives appears to be missing over 100 potentially relevant�files that Sir Jeremy Heywood claimed in February 2014 to have examined.”
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He claimed that four files that are extremely relevant and should have been released in�January 2015 have been �temporarily retained� or kept closed.�
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He added, “following a Freedom of Information request�for these four files the Cabinet Office has said some of the information was�exempt from disclosure and the rest was being prepared for release.� An appeal has been lodged with the�Information Commissioner.� Given the scale of trade interests at stake,�I would imagine that British advisers continued to help the Indian military,�police and intelligence agencies.”
