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...tried to tell him I’m a Sikh, and it’s part of my religion,” Singh said. “As soon as I said this, he said ‘This is not discrimination, this is a blanket policy...
Shortly after the incident, Singh said he called the legal director of the Sikh Coalition, an organization that “seeks to safeguard the civil and human rights of all citizens” and “communicate the collective interests of Sikhs to civil society,” according to its website...
Amardeep Singh, legal director of the Sikh Coalition, said he has handled six cases of this nature in the past...
...said the Sikh Coalition has come up with a “standard operating procedure” for handling such cases...
...Sikh, Singh is the first member of a religious minority to lead India. As an advocate of secular government, he will be a welcome antidote to outgoing Prime Minister Vajpayee who once declared, “These days militancy in the name of Islam leaves no room for tolerance. Wherever such Muslims live, they tend not to live in coexistence.” And under Singh’s tenure, India could begin to emerge from large-scale poverty. As finance minister in the early 1990s, Singh began the effort to scale back India’s mammoth bureaucracy...