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A street
vendor turned entrepreneur who shared high table with Obama
Monday, May 10, 2010 03:41:20 PM,
Arun Kumar, IANS |
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Sirajuddin Qureshi |
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Washington:
From a street vendor kid to sharing the high table at a presidential
summit on entrepreneurship hosted by President Barack Obama to
deepen America’s ties with Muslim communities, Sirajuddin Qureshi
has indeed come a long way.
“The experience of coming here was great because we never expected
what happened here,” said Qureshi who started his schooling at a
Delhi madrassa, earned a degree in law and then went on to establish
the Hind group of industries with interests ranging from meat
processing to fast food to aviation.
As 200 delegates mostly from Muslim countries shared their
experiences at the summit here last month about starting their
businesses, Obama told them that America is an open society and
offered his support to them “particularly young entrepreneurs from
India”, Qureshi told IANS in an interview here.
Obama encouraged entrepreneurs from Muslim countries to come
forward, he said while noting so many high officials from Secretary
of State Hillary Clinton to Commerce Secretary Gary Locke came to
meet them and learn about their problems. “It was a unique venture,”
he said.
Qureshi, who was elected president of the India Islamic Cultural
Centre in New Delhi in 2004, also took the opportunity to invite
Obama to address the centre designed to be a “platform to promote
peace and brotherhood” when he visits India later this year.
“I believe Obama’s intentions are very clear,” Qureshi said. “He
wants to open America to all particularly the Muslim countries. He
has offered his support, we should also help him and try to support
him.”
Qureshi had an humble beginning by selling odd and ends bought from
the market.
“When I was very young, I used to earn money by just sitting on the
pavement as a vendor, bringing something from the market and
selling. I was very happy to make money,” he said.
His group of industries is today “a name trusted in 50 countries”
with interests in agro processing, abattoirs, livestock development,
engineering, education, hospitality and power.
The Indian entrepreneur said: “(Muslim) people were a little
reluctant to associate with America. Now, I believe, Muslim states
are coming forward to listen to Obama and they want to do things
with the US.”
“Whatever Obama indicated during his speech in Cairo last June
reaching out to Muslims around the world, he is trying to implement
it,” Qureshi said. “All the delegates who came were appreciative of
his views, his initiative.”
“So I believe he is on the right track. And a few things that he has
already done have proved to be good for Muslim communities and they
will come forward to support him. And he will also support Muslim
people.”
Obama, Qureshi said, was very appreciative of India, its enterprise
and its business people, and expressed his desire to further
strengthen relationship with India calling it an emerging world
power and one of the special countries for the US.
(Arun Kumar can be contacted at arun.kumar@ians.in)
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