Vijay Riyait Articles

Parmjit Dhanda's new book, My Political Race, is a modern political tale of the highs and lows of political life. It is also, more importantly, a tale of aspiration to succeed against the odds, to rise up from a poor immigrant background from the farmlands of Punjab,...

Today Sikhs for Labour will be officially launched at the House of Commons, with Labour leader Ed Miliband and the shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper as the keynote guests. Other parties, especially the Conservatives, have been trying to make inroads into the Sikh...

This year marks the 30th anniversary of the attack, ordered by the Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi, on the holiest of Sikh shrines, Sri Harimandir Sahib Ji, otherwise known as the Golden Temple, in which 400 people are believed to have died. This week, according...

Andrew Adonis opened the Progress political weekend at Stoke Rochford Hall by saying it was important not to be complacent and that the Labour party faced an almighty political battle. In terms of what Labour had to do to win in 2015, Adonis was at pains to highlight...