Former Leicester South MP Parmjit Singh Gill
A delegation has visited Downing
Street to seek support for a campaign against the execution of a prisoner in
India.
Former Leicester South MP Parmjit Singh Gill and Sital Singh Gill,
general secretary of the Indian Workers Association in Leicestershire, spoke to
David Cameron about the case of Balwant Singh Rajoana.
He is on death row in Punjab for his role in the 1995 murder of
then state chief minister Beant Singh, who was killed by suicide bomber Dilawar
Singh.
Rajoana was convicted of acting as back-up suicide bomber, should
Singh have failed.
He has not appealed against the sentence, though other
conspirators have had the death penalty commuted.
Mr Singh Gill said: "It was a very worthwhile and
constructive trip to London.
"David Cameron listened to us and seemed very supportive.
"He made it absolutely clear that the UK was opposed to the
death penalty."
The Leicester pair also discussed their fight with Liberal
Democrat deputy leader Simon Hughes.
The Indian Workers Association is to follow up the meeting by
writing to the Prime Minister, urging him to put pressure on the Indian
government to abolish the death penalty.
