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Walker Bobby, Marathoner Fauja
Singh, PR’s Teji honoured
WSN Network
LONDON:
Balwant ‘Bobby’
Grewal, the Sikh community leader in
London
who plans to walk 700-km this summer to raise funds for research
into diseases of the bowel, was honoured by British Home Office
Minister Tony McNulty. Grewal, the toast of the Punjabis and
particularly the Sikh community, received the honour from
Non-Resident Punjabi (NRP) businessman Rami Ranger Saturday night.
Ranger, head of the British Sikh Association, organized the massive
event at a hotel in northwest London. Among others who were honored
were Ashraf Chohan, secretary general of the Pakistan India UK
Friendship Forum and Fauja Singh, who at 93 became the oldest person
to run the London marathon four years ago until his record was
broken this year by a centurion.
Ravi Chand, a
former police officer and president of the National Black Police
Association; and Teji Singh, founder of Sterling Media, a public
relations firm, were also honored. Grewal plans to the marathon walk
from the Scottish parliament to the British parliament from June 4
to raise 1 million pounds for research to find a cure for bowel
cancer in Britain.
Ranger, MBE, who
heads the Pakistan India and UK Friendship Forum, said the British
Sikh Association, in line with the teachings of Guru Gobind Singh,
has taken patrons from every faith to show that religion must unite
and not divide. Lord Mohamed Iltaf Sheikh, Patron of British Sikh
Association, Virendra Sharma, Labour MP, Sukhbir Singh Kapoor, Vice
Chair, World Sikh Organisation and Councilor Paramjit Gill, were
among others present on the occasion.
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April 2008
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