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Surrey Mayor Diana Watts plays the
Sikh gallery
WSN Network
SURREY: Surrey
is in the news among the Sikh community this week as it returne as
victorius a group of young Sikhs eager to move on and profess their
faith sans the luggage of divisive religious quibbles, but Surrey
was also in the news last week because of its Mayor.
Surrey Mayor
Dianne Watts cast aside all bogus apprehensions raised by some known
anti-Sikh journos in
Canada and went
to join her Sikh voters at the two Surrey gurdwaras on either end of
the political spectrum.
On the gurpurab
of Guru Nanak Dev Ji,
Watts refused to
be cowed down by those who would have read meanings into her visit
to gurdwaras. She had come under attack earlier for being part of a
procession where a few radical Sikhs were eulogised.
Watts went to
the Gurdwara Dashmesh Durbar to officiate the granting of a building
permit for the gurdwara's new youth centre but there were fears that
it woul dbe seen as patronising some militants who were killed at
the hands of the Indian police almost a couple of decades ago.
last time,
Watts
had refused to go and speak from the main stage of the Vaisakhi past
summer. This year she was part of the prayer ceremony for slain
editor of the Indo Canadian Times, Tara Singh Hayer.
So basically
Watts
was courting all shades of voters.
The federal and
the municipal elections have passed, the B.C. provincial elections
are due next year.
26 November
2008
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