Labour councillor is investigated after appearing to back a terror group by ... trends now
A Labour councillor is being investigated by the party after appearing to show support for a banned terror group.
Parbinder Kaur, who posed with Sir Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner at a campaign launch in the West Midlands in March, shared tributes to militants fighting to create a Sikh state – Khalistan – in India's Punjab state.
The Babbar Khalsa group, proscribed by the Home Office in 2001, was responsible for killing 329 passengers in a bomb which downed an Air India flight in 1985.
But councillor Kaur, who is running in tomorrow's local elections to retain her seat in the Smethwick ward on Sandwell Council, is believed to have outraged party staff and local activists due to her views on the group.
In 2022, she shared an image of Dilawar Singh Babbar, a Punjab Police officer who became a suicide bomber to assassinate the Indian state's chief minister.
An accompanying caption – 'Shaheedi Diwas' – refers to 'Martyrs' Day', when Indian freedom fighters from the days of the British Empire are remembered.
Keir Starmer (left)and deputy leader Angela Rayner (centre) pose with Parbinder Kaur (right)
Starmer and Rayner were in Dudley to launch the party's campaign for the May 2 local elections
A year earlier, she posted an image of Sukhdev Singh Sukha and Harjinder Singh Jinda.
The pair were responsible for gunning down Indian MPs Lalit Maken and Arjan Dass in 1985.
Alongside a picture of the pair – who hanged after being arrested – she posted: 'Bhai Sukha and Bhai Jinda were kept hanging for 30 minutes.
'For the execution, 4 Deputy Police Commissioners, 10 assistant Police
