The Sikh MPs in the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) has demanded the separate identity for the Sikh community in the upcoming census in 2021 and discussed the issue with the executives at the Office for National Statistics (ONS), according to the statement released by the Sikh Federation on Wednesday.
The statement also said that the Preet Kaur Gill, who is the chairman of the APPG and and MP from the Birmingham, Edgbaston has given the letter of the demand signed by 140 MPs to the officials of the ONS.
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The MPs put forward various views about the separate identity of the Sikhs in the country, which has been protected from discrimination under the UK law, which was passed after the ruling in the 1983 case of Mandla v Dowell Lee.
According to the report published in Times of India, in the previous census of 2011, around 83,362 Sikhs wrote their ethnicity as Sikh by choosing the write-in option instead of ticking boxes.
