Dr Rami Ranger honoured at World Sikh Awards

He started his first business in 1987 with just two quid in his pocket but today Dr Rami Ranger MBE overlooks an empire with an annual turnover of £120 million.

Dr Ranger is the founder and Managing Director of logistics company Sea Air & Land Forwarding Ltd and Sun Mark Ltd, which focuses on marketing and distribution and was awarded a third consecutive Queens award for Enterprise in 2009, 2010 and 2011. This achievement, along many others made him a worthy winner of the Sikh People’s Choice award at the annual World Sikh Awards which took place in London's Park Lane last night.

Dr Ranger, who has done a lot to serve both the business world and the British Asian community, thanked the Sikh Gurus "who liberated us" adding,

"My mum who brought me up single handedly as my father was assassinated for opposing the partition of United India two months before I was born, to India for instilling right values, my wife for supporting me when I had nothing, to my staff for their loyalty and commitment and the UK for the British sense of fairness."

Dr Ranger was born in India two months after the assassination of his father Shaheed Nanak Singh, an activist who was against the breakup of India on the basis of religion. He has done much to help communities in Britain, having served as chairman of the Pakistan, India and UK Friendship Forum as well as contributing to the political landscape, having founded the British Asian Conservative Link (BACL), encouraging more Asians to become politically involved with the party. He was awarded an MBE by the Queen in 2005.

A big believer in philosophy, Dr Ranger believes everyone has their part to play in changing the landscape of the country.

Quoting Edmund Burke, he said,

“The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing”.