December 26, 2025 06:15 pm (IST)
Follow us:
facebook-white sharing button
twitter-white sharing button
instagram-white sharing button
youtube-white sharing button
Christmas vandalism sparks mass arrests in Raipur; Assam acts too with crackdown on 'religious intolerance' | BJP's VV Rajesh becomes Thiruvananthapuram Mayor after party topples Left's 45-year-rule in city corporation | ‘I can’t bear the pain’: Indian-origin father of three dies after 8-hour hospital wait in Canada hospital | Janhvi Kapoor, Kajal Aggarwal, Jaya Prada slam brutal lynching in Bangladesh, call out ‘selective outrage’ | Tarique Rahman returns to Bangladesh after 17 years | Shocking killing inside AMU campus: teacher shot dead during evening walk | Horror on Karnataka highway: sleeper bus bursts into flames after truck crash, 9 killed | PM Modi attends Christmas service at Delhi church, sends message of love and compassion | Delhi erupts over lynching of Hindu man in Bangladesh; protest outside High Commission | Targeted killing sparks global outrage: American lawmakers condemn mob lynching of Hindu man in Bangladesh
Rahul Gandhi
Image Credit: UNI

Rahul Gandhi bestows the Lifetime Achievement Award on George Abraham

| @indiablooms | Jun 09, 2023, at 05:53 pm

Washington/UNI: George Abraham, a founding member of the Indian Overseas Congress (IOC) and the vice chairman of the American chapter, was honoured.

According to Indica news, Rahul Gandhi, the president of the Congress, presented Abraham with the Lifetime Achievement Award.

Abraham received the honour for his many years of dedication to the company. During a celebration in Queens, New York, Gandhi gave Abraham the medal during a recent trip to the country.

Sam Pitroda, the head of IOC Global, announced the prize and invited Gandhi to give the plaque honouring Abraham's dedication to the IOC.

"The award was a deserving honour for a person's vision, commitment, and labour of love. His wife, Lona Abraham, also worked for the company with him," the IOC said in a statement.

As a teenager in India, Abraham got involved with the party, and he helped form the IOC USA.

In a statement released by the IOC, Abraham said that his involvement with the Congress Party began in his school years.

He worked for the youth group "All Kerala Balajana Sakhyam" and rose to the position of state treasurer.

Before relocating to the US, he later worked for the Kerala Students Union (KSU).

Abraham also had a key role in establishing a foreign organisation to help the party.

His New York flat served as the location of the initial planning session for the IOC.

On June 25, 2001, Sonia Gandhi, a former leader of the All India Congress Committee, inaugurated the group.

Support Our Journalism

We cannot do without you.. your contribution supports unbiased journalism

IBNS is not driven by any ism- not wokeism, not racism, not skewed secularism, not hyper right-wing or left liberal ideals, nor by any hardline religious beliefs or hyper nationalism. We want to serve you good old objective news, as they are. We do not judge or preach. We let people decide for themselves. We only try to present factual and well-sourced news.

Support objective journalism for a small contribution.