Sikh Mayor From UK Appeals To Punjabis For Restraint

The youngest Sikh Mayor in UK Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi, who heads the Gravesend council, has appealed to all Punjabis in the United Kingdom to exercise restraint and inform police about rioters.

"While the Punjabi community is careful there and have prepared themselves for self-defence, they are not panicky and are extremely careful that no rioting takes place", he said here on Thursday.

Tanmanjeet Singh is on a week's tour of India. His father is the president of Gurudwara Guru Nanak Darbar, Gravesend, UK. It is the largest gurudwara in the UK spread over 805 acres.

Amid rioting and arson in UK, Sikhs there have joined hands to protect gurudwaras from possible attacks by rioters. They are also networking through social networking sites like Facebook and a campaign titled "

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