A prominent Indian origin in Britain her been nominated by former Prime Minister Theresa May to the House of Lords, according to reports.
Dr. Rami Ranger is known as a survivor of Partition chaos. He started a business in London with 2 pounds in 1987 and eventually found a multi-million-pound business empire.
The chairman of Conservative Friends of India and founder of Sun Mark Ltd was born in July 1974 in Gujranwala, located North of Lahore in Pakistan. During the partition in 1947, his family migrated to Punjab in India.
Ranger did his schooling from Modern School in Patiala and then went to Mohindra college. He graduated in Bachelor of Arts from Government College in Chandigarh. In May 1971, he arrived in the United Kingdom to study law.
His company, Sun Mark Ltd is the only company to have been awarded five consecutive “Queens Awards for Enterprise”. Ranger was conferred royal honors MBE and CBE for services to business and community. He also signed a memorandum with the Hashoo Group of Pakistan to develop infrastructure along the Kartarpur corridor.
He also one of the donors for the Mahatma Gandhi statue installed in Parliament Square in 2015 by former British prime minister David Cameron along with India’s former finance minister Arun Jaitley and Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan.
Ranger narrated his story in a book titled ‘From Nothing to Everything’. In the book he says that one does not need a rich father, an elite education or the old schoolboy network to help one in life but what one need is self-respect ethics, commitment, vision, and empathy.
If confirmed, he will be joining a number of Indian origin members in the House of Lords, including Swraj Paul, Bhikhu Parekh, Karan Bilimoria, Meghnad Desai, Navnit Dholakia, and Jitesh Gadhia.
