Read Full Story: by Gurinder Singh from Sacramento, California

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San Francisco, Nov. 10, 2007
Gurinder Singh

Jessi Khangura was on his visit to USA to thank NRIs for their support back in India. He came from UK to USA on November 09, 2007.

He was born in India but raised on England. Now he got Indian Citizenship. He is the first MLA from Qila Raipur Constituency representing Congress party since India got independence.

Mr. Khangura has a mission in serve his fellow Punjabi. He is the man of his words and he promised to stand behind that. His ideal is Former Chief Minister of Joint Punjab Sardar Pratap Singh Kairon.
He is very thankful to NRIs for their support to win the elections. He promised to work for the betterment of the people from grassroots

Jassi Khangura with Gurinder Singh (behalf of NRIpress.com media)

Following proposals were discussed during his fist US visit since he has been elected MLA for Punjab Assembly.

• Education: Mr. Khangura is not in favor Adrash Schools (Beacon Schools) as planned by Punjab Government; rather he wants to establish Senior Secondary Schools in bigger villages and want to establish busing system to bring students from neighboring villages. According to Mr. Khangura Adrash Schools will create more inequality in rural education.
• Being a NRI, Mr. Khangura is committed to work for NRIs as well. Soon after his Election , first thing he did is that he requested Chief Minister to establish NRI Register so that government could keep track of NRI and their problems related to property, marriages and police harassments to NRIs. He is working on this.
• During press conference Mr. Khangura had shown keen interest in bringing millions of NRIs at one platform so that their concerns could me handled on state and district levels in Punjab and also abroad.
• His first step is to bring poor people of his constituency out of vicious circle of poverty and for that he is establishing village cotton industry. By doing this he promised to provide employment to landless villagers.

Mr. Khangura will be proved good asset to the people of his constituency, state and nation as a whole in days to come. He is on his mission to see real progress in Punjab. Unlike to other politician, he is not giving false promises, rather he criticized government promises of Nuclear Power Plants, Metro Train in Punjab. According to him, it is not possible to get a nuclear power in few months; it takes years of planning to make it a reality. He is going to raise question to the government regarding over expenditure of propaganda of Metro Train in Punjab. According to Mr. Khangura, Government already spent Rs 10 Million for letting people know that the government is signing MOU with Delhi Metro to build Metro Train in Punjab.

This function was arranged by Balbir Singh Sekhon who belongs to Village Chappar of Qila Raipur constituency. There were about 200 prominent local resident of San Francisco Bay Area. At this function Mr. Jaspal Singh Saini from Los Angles presented him Letter from US Congressman to recognized Mr. Khangura as guest of the state.