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(olverhampton silence on Sikh otest

11th April 1969, Page 45
11th April 1969
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!,ader of the Sikh community in Britain, Sohan Singh Jolly, renewed a pledge to himself to death next Sunday unless verhampton Corporation transport cornwithdraws its ban on the wearing of ans and beards.

ast Sunday thousands of Sikhs, wearing lc armbands, marched to the British High mission in New Delhi in protest against verhampton's policy.

eanwhile, Mr. Jolly is expected to meet Wolverhampton committee in a lastattempt to get the ban lifted. He has already named Mr. Jarman Singh Pamar, editor of the London-based newspaper Indian Observer, as the next man to burn himself The Sikhs are pledged to burn themselves at the rate of one every 15 days until the ban is removed.

A spokesman for Wolverhampton Corporation Transport told CM on Tuesday that there was nobody at all in the department with authority to comment on the news or confirm that a meeting between Mr. Jolly and the committee had been arrangecL Mr. R. H. Addlesee, general manager of the transport department, was "out".


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