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Closed Take action to recognise the Panjabi people and wrongs against them

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1. Introduce Panjabi language teaching (Gurmukhi script & Shahmukhi script) in mainstream schools
2. Re-establish traditional Sikh Regiment & Panjab Regiment in British Army to honour our heroes
3. Apologise in British Parliament for major killings of Panjabi language speaking people

1.Aug 1947- Panjab Partition by British Empire killed more than a million Panjabi people
2.April 1919- British troops killed Panjabi people in Jallianwala Bagh Amritsar
3.Sept 1914- British Empire killed Komagata Maru ship passengers at Budge Budge Kolkata
4.March 1849- British Empire burnt Panjabi language books

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