CONN: Highly educated and with a firm commitment to education, family and community are traits that led 40 the election of Mr. Amarjit Singh Buttar to the Vernon, Connecticut board of Education. ‘After being appointed to the post earlier this year, Mr. Buttar was enthusiastic about running for the elective post. His credentials (several .degrees and many years of civic involvement and his desire to participate in the politics of his adopted home helped to propel him to this “vin. With support from wife Rajinder, and sons Gursimrit and Angad he “took on the challenge of a bid for a seat on the School board.
He was supported by local labor unions and citizens who knew of his ‘outstanding work at the Workers Compensation office. His win is all the “more telling of a community that has grown to respect those culturally different from the main a she told us that only 2.0r3 Sikh families live in Vernon “and he may be one of the only Turbaned Sikhs to win elective office in the U.S, In Vernon, he was part of a sweep that saw five democrats elected to the board.
Mr. Buttar, who has called Connecticut home for more than 25 years, has not visited his former homeland since 1976, He told this reporter that as long as K.P’S. Gill and company are in charge I have no intention of going back.” Suffice it to say Punjab’s loss is Connecticut’s gain.
Article extracted from this publication >> December 1, 1995
