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Indian Overseas Congress president and former Surrey mayoral candidate Vikram Bajwa. Les Bazso, PNG
“The current law and order of the State, the drug menace, one-sided functioning of the Legislative Assembly, Speaker’s discriminatory role against Congress, led to the decision,” said IOC executive committee members Kulbir Singh Thind, Joginder Singh Dhillon and Arun Bhandari in a joint release issued on Friday.
IOC president Vikram Bajwa had sent a request to 156 NRI organizations across the globe, including members of the India Caucus, MPs in Canada and the UK, the Indo-U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Indo-Canadian Commerce Association, Walmart, Infosys, IBM, American Nuclear Technology Inc., and others to boycott the conference.

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