AdminDavid Cameron has donned an orange headscarf as he visited a Sikh Gurdwara. The Prime Minister took along his wife, Samantha, who was celebrating her 44th birthday, for the visit to the temple in Gravesend, where they joined around 3,000 worshipers on a parade to celebrate the Vaisakhi festival. He told the audience the Vaisakhi […]
David Cameron has donned an orange headscarf as he visited a Sikh Gurdwara. The Prime Minister took along his wife, Samantha, who was celebrating her 44th birthday, for the visit to the temple in Gravesend, where they joined around 3,000 worshipers on a parade to celebrate the Vaisakhi festival.
He told the audience the Vaisakhi festival was a “big, bold” sign of their devotion.
“I wanted to make sure Downing Street was part of this too, and I’m proud to be the first Prime Minister to host a Vaisakhi reception at Number 10,” he added.
It is not the first time Mr Cameron has visited a sikh temple. In February he met worshippers at the Gurdwara SahibTemple in Leamington, Warwickshire.
And in 2013 he visited the Indian holy site of the Golden Temple of Amritsar, where he stopped short of fulfilling the Sikh community’s demand for an apology over the 1919 massacre of nearly 400 civilians at the hands of British soldiers.
~ Source: dailysikhupdates.com