Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013
BOYCOTT: Indian Overseas Congress to skip NRI conference in Punjab
VANCOUVER DESI
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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