Missouri Democratic Party Asian American Caucus St. Louis County Chapter celebrated its Inauguration on Saturday 27th February 2010 at the Haveli Restaurant in St. Louis on Page Avenue, Missouri, USA. The event started at 3:30 PM and ends at 6:30 PM followed by Refreshments.
Many guests, friends and MDPAAC Board of Director (BOD) attended the event. Among the MDPAAC Executive Chairman MD Alam, Vice Chairman Dr. Abdul Akram, National Organizer Anwar Khan, State Organizer Rosy Khan, Secretary of Operation Jennifer Keleti were present at the inauguration.
MDPAAC St. Louis County Chapter's Chairman Dr. Nasim Shekhani Presided the event and St. Louis County Chapter's Woman Co-Chair Rekha Sharma moderated the event. Rashuidul Haq, the MDPAAC St. Louis County Chapter vice Chair also attended the inauguration. Among the MDPAAC-SLCC Executives Treasurer Asma Raza, Membership Coordinator Arif Rahman, Election and Campaign Coordinator Mizan Rahman, Outreach Coordinator Tamir Siam, Publicity Secretary Mashiur Rahman, Business Community Association (BCA) Coordinator Hema Patel, Youth Coordinator Shahriar Sheikh, and Deputy BCA Coordinator Abdur Razzak attended the inauguration and fundraising event. Among the local guests two state representatives' candidates Byron Delear and Teona McGhaw-Boure' attended the event and spoke to the audience about their candidacy.
Dr. Nasim Shekhani presented his very delighted speech to the audience. Greetings of Peace. If you look at the relevant statistics, we the naturalized citizens of this great country can be proud of ourselves. We are amongst the most law abiding section of society, amongst the upper bracket of tax payers, and boast the highest number of professionals per capita. The business acumen of our people is acknowledged by all and the work ethic of our community is enviable. Undoubtedly, we Asian Americans are flourishing economically. Dr. Nasim Shekhani asked all the Asian American Community members to be part of the main stream political process.
Rekha Sharma, woman Co-Chair or MDPAAC St. Louis County Chapter spoke and gave her report to the audience. As Rekha believes and takes serious positive attitude, and active leadership toward the main streaming process of Asian-American Communities in the great state of Missouri. Our well being is a tribute to the generosity of the Americans who were here before us. They have welcomed us with open arms, and have given us the same rights which they themselves enjoy. They fought long and hard for these rights and privileges; from the winning of freedom from the British, to the Civil War, to Martin Luther King and his dream. They have sacrificed their lives, their properties, their sons and daughters to get where they are, and yet they think nothing of sharing their hard earned freedoms with us. This truly is the land of the generous and the home of the brave.
My question to you and myself is that what can we do for our adopted homeland to repay its favors to us? I have been thinking about this for a long time, and the obvious answer is that we should be doing what we already are: be law abiding, work hard etc. I know most of us are already doing that, and I am proud of this fact.
However, we do have another duty; we owe it to society that we weigh in on programs that are for the betterment of the people of the US, We want to ensure that we share the American Dream of leaving the country a much better place for the next generation. We cannot simply be law abiding and hard working citizens, we also have to be involved citizens, we have to support our fellow citizens in the democratic process, and we can do that only if we get involved in the political process. This is important; the future of our great country and our next generation depends on it.
With these objectives in mind, a few like minded friends got together and approached the powers that be. I am happy to inform you that they were received very enthusiastically by the Missouri Democratic Party. They appreciated what they had to say and authorized them to form the Missouri Democratic Party Asian American Caucus (MDPAAC). The MDP has provided us the opportunity to be really involved in the decision making process, at all levels. We have the opportunity, but do we have the will? Let us show our fellow Americans that we do have the will. Let us support this fledgling organization, the MDPAAC, which has been formed so you can exercise your rights in the political process and build it up as fast as we can, things will not be different unless you get in there and change them. I urge you to join this effort. Rekha Sharma thanked all those attended the event and those community members who did not attended but helped MDPAAC to reach the up to dated status.
Rosy Khan MDPAAC state Organizer invites all the Asian-Americans to joining with Missouri Democratic Party Asian American Caucus and make a positive base line for the Asian-American 2nd generations.
Jennifer Keleti MDPAAC Secretary of Operations spoke about the Community buildings strategies. Ms. Keleti emphasized on the community build up and the collaboration of political activities among the immigrant communities as well as to the main stream.
Anwar Khan spoke about the organizational strategies and how to win in the 2010 election over Republicans. Anwar believes that as Democrats and Asian-Americans we can make a difference and we have to do so. Anwar invites all the Asian-American Community members and all the Democrats to be serious about the 2010 Mid-term election. Anwar believes the Asian American Community has a lot of potentials to offer to the show me states as a political involvement. Anwar asked all to be part of the “Robin Carnahan's Senate Race? Though Robin is about 7% behind still we can make a difference. So we have to prove that we will bring that 8% for Robin that Anwar Khan believes.
MDPAAC Vice Chairman and National Executive Dr. Abdul Akram thanked all those who joined the event and welcomed the St. Louis County Chapter MDPAAC leadership for this success inauguration event. Dr. Akram asked the community members to work closely to have a victory in the upcoming election of 2010 very positive in the race and asked everyone to support all the democrats and he said that's how we will make it all blue together. Our race will be a race of Democrat vs. Republican. So please St. Louis County democrats, let us come together and have us a victory over republicans. Dr. Akram is asking for your moral and ethical support. Dr. Akram believes we all can make the victory in Missouri which was not possible in past like our president Obama had a very close race.
MDPAAC Chairman MD Alam thanked St. Louis County Chapter and its leadership to have such successful event with a huge positive reputation. MD Alam opened his speech with a great note of " A great idea without any plan is just a dream only" MD Alam explained that as in the political process we need a great plan though we have many great ideas. It is the time to make all ideas integrated with plans and make it in reality. If we make all our ideas in reality then all plans will be effective and we will be successful. MD Alam mentioned that, Missouri Democratic Party Asian American Caucus is one of the three statewide democratic Organizations in the great state of Missouri. MD requested all the audience to visit the official website of Missouri Democratic Party Asian American Caucus which is (www.mdpaac.org). MD Alam advised the St. Louis County Chapter's leadership to have a membership drive and increase the number of Asian Americans in the process.
MD Alam spoke about the “I Have a Dream?the great speech of Martin Luther King Jr. and tied with to be integrating the Asian American Immigrant Communities to be dreaming a class one citizen. MD Alam believes the only way to be a class one citizen is the development the schema of Political Process and be active part of that decision making strategies. MD Alam recommended that we should endorse Robin Carnahan as the US Senatorial Candidate for the upcoming election of 2010. MD strongly hopes and believes that Robin Carnahan will be our next US Senator from the great state of Missouri. To make it happen MD suggests to all of MDPAAC members and supporters and to all Missourians and as well as all Democrats to do a lot of field works including door to door campaign, phone banking, kitchen table talks and so on.
MD Alam thanked Byron Delear and Teona McGhaw-Boure' for joining the event. MD Alam asked all the Asian American immigrant communities to be ready for serious campaign for the Democrats. MD Alam thanked Hema Patel and Haveli for sponsoring the event.
Byron Delear and Teona McGhaw-Boure' both State Representatives Candidates spoke at the events and they asked MDPAAC's support for their Missouri House race. Byron Delear and Teona McGhaw Boure' thanked MDPAAC-SLCC and committed for future connections.
A fundraising was scheduled and was conducted by the MDPAAC-SLCC Election and Campaign Coordinator Mizan Rahman and it was successful. Mizan Rahman thanked those who donated and supported MDPAAC-SLCC. Moshiur Rahman, Asma Raza, Tamir Siam and Hema Patel congratulate all the community members and guests attending for the MDPAAC-SLCC Inauguration.
Missouri Democratic party Asian American Caucus (MDPAAC)Website: http://mdpaac.org/SLCC.aspxEmail: mdpaac@mdpaac.orgTel: 816.372.1873, Fax: 816.841.3502 |
