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WATCH: Whitehorse Mayor's Lesson In Turban Tying, Bhangra Dancing Goes Viral

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 10 Jan, 2017 10:16 AM
    WHITEHORSE — A video of a Yukon mayor learning to wear a Sikh turban and dance Bhangra has gone viral.
     
    A seven-minute video posted online Friday starring Whitehorse Mayor Dan Curtis has already garnered more than a million views.
     

    In it, resident Gurdeep Pandher instructs the mayor in the art of folding a turban before the pair show off Indian dance moves on the floor of city hall.
     
    Afterwards, Curtis thanks Pandher for his lessons and asks him to declare Whitehorse a "diverse, wonderful and beautiful community."
     
    Pandher was born in a Punjabi village in India and moved to Canada in 2006.
     
     
    He became a Canadian citizen five years later.

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