Assures the Sikh community of solving passport and visa related issues

NEW YORK(TIP): Prof. Prem Singh Chandumajra, Shiromani Akali Dal leader and Parliament Member from the historic Anandpur Sahib Parliamentary constituency visited New York recently and held a meeting with the local Shiromani Akali Dal leaders at the residence of SAD leader Raghbir Singh Subhanpur. A large number of party members attended the lunch meeting.

Speaking on the occasion, Prof. Chandumajra said that he was aware of the problems the Punjabis, particularly, the Sikhs were having in respect of passport and visa and would take up the issue with the Consul General in New York. He said he had, on his visit to California, where he had gone to attend a wedding, taken up the matter with the Consul General in San Francisco, too. He blamed the government of India for not being sensitive to the difficulties the Sikhs faced for being denied the passport and visa.

Speaking about the situation in Punjab under the Congress government of Captain Amarinder Singh, he said people were already fed up with the Congress government working. He accused the Punjab government of total inaction and said the State was being pushed in to deeper economic and social morass.

Earlier, welcoming the visiting leader, SAD President Raghbir Singh Subhanpur said that the SAD leaders and workers in the US were always ready to support the party in Punjab. He spoke of the need to getting back in to the driver’s seat in Punjab in order to protect the interests of the Sikhs and the Sikh religion, which he said, was under threat from the present Congress government. He also spoke of the problems in getting passport and visa and requested the visiting leader to take up the issue with appropriate authorities here and in India.

Speaking on the occasion, Master Mohinder Singh, one of the patrons of the SAD in USA had a long list of the infirmities of various systems in the State of Punjab. He bemoaned lack of basic infrastructure in schools and in hospitals. He spoke of the enormous inconveniences faced by NRI’s in courts in India, where cases were kept pending for long.

Others who spoke on the occasion included Mohan Singh Khatra, President of New York unit of SAD, Himat Singh Sarpanch, one of the senior leaders of the party, and Kashmir Singh Pehowa, a general secretary of New York SAD.

Sardar Ajit Singh Subhanpur, father of Raghbir Singh Subhanpur, honored the visiting leader with a siropao.