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Mr S. S. Virk Of Des Pardes Weekly

EDM number 277 in 2010-12, proposed by John McDonnell on 17/06/2010.
Categorised under the topics of Asia and Broadcasting.

That this House congratulates Mr S. S. Virk for being awarded the prestigious Global Punjabi Society Media Award, recently referred on him by the Indian Minister of Information and Broadcasting, Ambika Soni, for his services to the Punjabi community in his role as Group Editor of the journal Des Pardes Weekly UK, which was established 40 years ago in 1965 by the late Tarsem Singh Purewal and which has become the largest, most popular and widely circulated Punjabi weekly newspaper representing the Punjabi-speaking community throughout Britain, Europe and across the globe.

This motion has been signed by a total of 11 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
John McDonnell17/06/2010Hayes and HarlingtonLabourProposed
John Cryer17/06/2010Leyton and WansteadLabourSeconded
Mike Gapes21/06/2010Ilford SouthLabourSeconded
Jeremy Corbyn21/06/2010Islington NorthLabourSeconded
Mike Hancock22/06/2010Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSeconded
Peter Bottomley22/06/2010Worthing WestConservativeSeconded
Kelvin Hopkins23/06/2010Luton NorthLabourSigned
Roger Godsiff28/06/2010Birmingham, Hall GreenLabourSigned
John Hemming28/06/2010Birmingham, YardleyLiberal DemocratSigned
David Anderson28/06/2010BlaydonLabourSigned
Alasdair McDonnell29/06/2010Belfast SouthSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned

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