Army has plans to create Sikh regiment – The Times
Comments(0)Army has plans to create Sikh regiment
Deborah Haynes Defence Editor
Published at 12:01AM, February 24 2015
A Sikh regiment could be created in the army as part of a plan to increase the number of ethnic minority soldiers, it was revealed yesterday.
The move comes eight years after a similar initiative was ditched amid fears that such a bespoke unit would be deemed racist. Mark Francois, the armed forces minister, however, said the idea “may well have merit”.
A reserve company of Sikhs was also under consideration, he added. Such a company would inherit many of the “proud traditions of Sikh regiments” from the army’s past, the minister said, during Commons defence questions…
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