PM Modi held meeting with Sikh delegation in US
- In Reports
- 03:19 PM, Sep 24, 2024
- Myind Staff
Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a meeting with several leaders of the Sikh community in the US. The meeting came during his three-day visit to the United States. The members of the Sikh delegation expressed their gratitude towards him for the work his government has done for the Sikh community.
One of the members from the American Sikh delegation named Jasdip Singh Jassee expressed the joy of meeting the Prime Minister saying, “We were so happy, and what a positive feeling we had after the meeting. We greeted the prime minister as soon as he walked in the room with the Sikh traditional jaikara of Jo Bole So Nihal, and the prime minister was so gracious to reply back Sat Sri Akaal.”
“We had a very good discussion. The prime minister has done a lot for the Sikh community,” Jassee told PTI after returning to Washington later in the day. Darshan Singh Dhaliwal, a prominent Sikh leader from Wisconsin, also had a meeting with the prime minister.
“I don’t think any other Prime Minister in the history of India has done for the Sikh community what Prime Minister Modi has been doing, including the opening of Kartar Saheb Corridor, celebrations of 500 years of Guru Nanak’s 550th birthday, abolishing the blacklist of Sikhs, who could not visit India and also getting justice for the victims of the Sikh genocide that happened in 1984 under the Congress government,” Jassee added while referring to the anti-Sikh riots that ensued in 1984 following the assassination of then-prime minister Indira Gandhi by her two Sikh security officers.
He congratulated the prime minister on his "very, very successful visit" to the US and said, "We thanked him today for what he has done for the Sikh community and we are going to take another delegation to India to meet him pretty soon and discuss issues with him." Referring to the mega community event on Saturday at the Nassau Coliseum in New York, Jassee further said, “What we saw in Long Island, New York, was a sea of supporters of India. I’m not going to say just supporters of Prime Minister Modi but supporters of India, people who love India, people who are so happy with the development of India, the progress of India that they showed there.”
Modi spoke to a gathering of over 13,000 Indian-Americans. Most attendees were from New York and New Jersey, but people also came from 40 other states, according to the organisers. Sixty charter buses were used to transport attendees. “Ironically, this was the same area where India and Pakistan played a cricket match. Again it was the same kind of crowd and the same kind of frenzy that we had in that match that I saw yesterday,” Jassee said.
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