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NRI Vikramjit Bajwa looking a nomination of Navjot Sidhu's resigned seat Chandigarh, Dec 04 NRI Vikramjit Bajwa is looking a nomination from the party for the Amritsar seat when BJP member Navjot Sidhu as a member of the Lok Sabha resigned. On November 11, Mr. Bajwa joined the BJP and was appointed the incharge of the party's NRI cell, in a letter to party president Rajnath Singh said, "I wish to offer myself to be considered as a BJP party candidate from Amritsar where Sidhu resigned." Sidhu had resigned when the Punjab and Haryana High Court convicted him last week in an 18 year old road rage case registered against him at Patiala. In his letter released to the press here Bajwa said,
"I will relentlessly work for the residents and make sure that
nobody, including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, make any false
promises." RRI Bajwa request to reserve seats for NRIs On October 31, 2006: Mr Vikramjit Bajwa, a prominent NRI from the USA and vice-president of the Indian National Overseas Congress, today called upon mainstream political parties to spare five seats each for the NRIs settled in India in the February, 2007 Punjab Assembly elections. Mr Bajwa said he had already sent representations to the top functionaries of various political parties, including the UPA chairperson, Ms Sonia Gandhi, the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, and the BJP President, Mr Rajnath Singh, for bringing a legislation in this regard in the forthcoming winter session of Parliament. Bajwa said that he had met various leaders including BJP chief Rajnath Singh, president of Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee Shamsher Singh Dullo and also Avinash Rai Khanna. He has floated the proposal that seats should be reserved for NRIs preferably in Ludhiana and Jalandhar. NRIs are returning to their roots in the states like Punjab and Kerala in the age group of 45-50 years for doing business and settlement. This necessitated the voting rights for the NRIs, which all major political parties had promised to bring out, Mr Bajwa claimed. He said, there was no representative from the NRI community in the US though it had three Chinese and four Muslims as members. The grant of dual citizenship with voting rights during the Parvasi Divas in New Delhi in 2007 should go a long way in strengthening the political rights of the NRIs, NRI Bajwa presented Rs 51, 000 cheque for treatment of Children suffering Chandigarh, March 31, 2006,
MR. VIKRAMJIT BAJWA, A NRI PHILANTHROPIST CALLED ON PUNJAB GOVERNOR AND ADMINISTRATOR, UNION TERRITORY, CHANDIGARH, GEN. RETD. S.F. RODRIGUES, PVSM VSM AND PRESENTED A CHEQUE OF RS.51,000- AS CONTRIBUTION FOR TREATMENT OF CHILDREN SUFFERING- 03/11/2006
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