AFTER your paper published my apologies on my alleged remarks of racism, I did make it clear through the media that I would not visit the constituency I was representing, or stand as an Independent now that the UKIP had suspended support and would not be at the count. This was due to the fact that it was UKIP who gave me the MP’s representation for North Wiltshire and I would in no way go against them.
I am grateful to over 800 people voting for me, despite the fact that they had no idea who I was, and no leaflets, that would give them some idea of what I stood for, had been pushed through their letter boxes. This itself speaks of British tolerance that I got the votes I did.
I have also contacted Gideon Falter, the chairman of Antisemitism UK to deny the fact that I am racist. My remarks were intended to comment on government and their policies, as I have explained to him, saying: “I wish to make clear that no abuse of nationalities or race were ever meant. I commented after I read some articles over a span of time.
“My comments whatever were aimed at government policies, and not the people. They were aimed at governments with the aim that someone reading them would see that there were people who were concerned over policies that led to these articles being published, but never towards people of the country. Why? Because I have friends there, and over the world and in fact just completed a tour with an Israeli gentleman and his family. 
“I had my computer with me when I entertained him and his family at my club. When I showed him what I was accused of, he laughed. First he said, “Why use Twitter, there are so many other public platforms you can use and explain yourself? On Twitter there are a limited number of words which conveys the opposite of what you really mean.” Secondly, he too, along with someone else, said that he did not find any anti-semitism except that some adjectives I used should not have been there.
“It has not been an easy time for me, not so much as my candidacy being dropped by the UKIP, but more because I found the slur of being anti-Semitic a verdict cast in a hurry. My family, my friends laughed when I told them what I had been accused of. Had my party suspected me of being anti racist, they would never have put me up as candidate and my fault is that I never mentioned these tweets as they were done long before I got politically involved.
“The damage over, I leave it to you, your organisation and the UKIP to judge me as they feel like. “I am an Indian and am one of moral conviction where I have openly condemned the numbers of the Hindu Taliban dangerously increasing as well as posing a threat to Indian secularism. . I have put my remarks on the Prime Minister’s website. On the other hand I know of countless Israelis and Jews who want a lasting peace with Palestine.”
CAPTAIN PADDY SINGH
Kelsey Road 
Salisbury