INDO-CANADIANS URGED TO EXERT MORE INFLUENCE OVER GRIT POLICY

Montreal - Indo-Canadians should stop trading the community's fabled ability to mobilize mass grassroots support for particular candidates in return for patronage rewards, a prominent B.C. Liberal activist has told party members in an open letter. Instead, Indo-Canadian political organizers should use the community's clout to have a greater influence on policy, Sukhi Sandhu argued in a letter he acknowledged might anger community members. Sandhu, active in West Coast politics, said there is ''unprecedented'' Indo-Canadian involvement in the eight-person Liberal leadership race that concludes here Saturday.