# Kemi slams SNP’s ‘cringe’ Sikh festival post sent during Remembrance Sunday two-minute silence

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/kemi-slams-snps-cringe-sikh-festival-post-sent-during-remembrance-sunday-two-minute-silence/
- Published: 2026-11-09T20:06:02+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-09T20:23:04+00:00
- Original publisher: Daily Mail (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16279243/Kemi-slams-SNPs-Sikh-festival-post-none-Remembrance-Sunday.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490
- Topics: World

## Key points

- Badenoch called the 11am festival post disrespectful.
- Swinney said the Scottish Government also marked Remembrance Sunday.
- The dispute centres on the timing and the accounts’ posts.

## Summary

Kemi Badenoch criticised the Scottish Government after its X account posted about the Sikh festival Bandi Chhor Divas at 11am on Remembrance Sunday, during the two-minute silence. The row centres on whether the post showed disrespect for remembrance, and how the government marked the occasion online.

Harriet Cross asked First Minister John Swinney who authorised the festival post and why the main account had not posted about Remembrance Sunday. Swinney called that claim “categorically false”, saying he attended the national service in Edinburgh, delivered a reading and laid a wreath, and that his account’s remembrance post was reposted by the government channel. A government spokesman also said the Scottish Government had acknowledged the day.

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