British Sikhs blast Starmer’s ‘incompetence’

Another day, another Downing Street drama. This time No. 10 is in trouble with the British Sikh community after it transpired its social media accounts failed to acknowledge the religious festival of Gurpurb last week. Now over 300 Sikh groups have addressed a scathing letter to the Prime Minister, blasting Sir Keir Starmer’s blunder as ‘indefensible’. Oh dear…

While the social media accounts of world leaders and political organisations – including the Labour party itself – marked the 555th birthday of the founder of Sikhism Guru Nanak, from Downing Street there was nothing but deafening silence. The rather unimpressed community has now come together to slam the PM’s slip-up, with Sikh Federation leader Dabinderjit Singh fuming about the government’s ‘show of incompetence’ on the matter. In the letter to Starmer, he raged:

When you were the leader of the Opposition you put out excellent Gurpurb messages, but [this] oversight will be seen by many in the Sikh community that our community is being taken totally for granted now you are in power.