The Pravasi Bharatiya Divas Convention, which will take place this time between January 8 and 10 in Indore, is when abroad Indians receive the highest honour, the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award.
Among the 21 beneficiaries of the 17th Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award (PBSA), which was revealed on Monday, are Guyana’s President Mohamed Irfaan Ali, a businessman living in the US named Darshan Singh Dhaliwal, and the CEO of the DSB Group, Piyush Gupta.
The Pravasi Bharatiya Divas Convention, which will take place this time between January 8 and 10 in Indore, is when abroad Indians receive the highest honour, the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award.
Irfaan Ali, 42, is an Indo-Guyanese Muslim who was inaugurated in as Guyana’s ninth president in August 2020. He will also serve as the convention’s principal guest, the Ministry of External Affairs announced in a statement.
On the night of October 23–24, 2021, Dhaliwal, a US-based NRI, was deported from Delhi’s IGI Airport due to his claimed role in planning a langar for farmers protesting the three agricultural laws that have since been dropped at Delhi’s borders. Surjit Singh Rakhra, a minister in the previous Akali Dal administration in Punjab, has a younger brother named Dhaliwal.