Bluestar probe: UK Sikh MP's meeting with cabinet secy sparks row
January 23, 2014  00:28
A meeting between Britain's only Sikh member of parliament and the Cabinet Secretary conducting a probe into the country's alleged involvement in planning Operation Bluestar in 1984 to flush out militants holed up in the Golden Temple has sparked a controversy with the Labour party asking why no other MP was invited for an interaction.

Prime Minister David Cameron directed his Cabinet Secretary Jeremy Heywood to probe the facts behind claims of British collusion in the operation that emerged as part of recently declassified documents.

Britain's only Sikh MP, Paul Uppal, outed a meeting with Heywood on the issue, triggering questions over why only the Conservative Party politician was being allowed access.

"On Monday night I am actually going to go and see Sir Jeremy Heywood with some other Sikhs, just to impress on him the level of sentiment and how sensitive this is," the Wolverhampton MP told the Sikh Television Channel last week.
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