Thus, he has always
been an active politician remaining associated with the political parties which he considered as the most
appropriate for him. However, politics is not the only field in which he is active. He becomes a role-model
mainly because he takes interest and works with full zeal and energy in various other social and educational
activities also. For example he has been a member of Senate and syndicate of Punjabi University, a member
of Board of Indian Airlines and a member of various business and industry committees attached to the
various Ministries like Ministry of Industry and Ministry of External Affairs. Likewise, he has taken active
interest in promoting Punjabi language and culture and in this regard he has remained member of India
International Center, President Shiromani Punjabi Sabha and Chief Patron of International Punjabi Society.
He was awarded ‘Secular Punjabi of the Globe’ by the Indo-Canadian Association of Vancouver, Canada.
The activities which have endeared him most relate to his helping the Indians having problems in foreign
countries. For example, he helped around 40,000 people in the foreign jail for more than 20 years and got
them released and sent back to their homes. Similarly, thousands of persons were unable to come back to
their country as Government was not giving their Passports. He helped such people also. In Spain island, he
got those Punjabi settled who were turned out from that place. When he was Minister during the last decade
of 20th Century he got 514 Sikhs recruited in Police and after that batch of 1997-98, such recruitment has
not taken place. He also helped those truck and taxi drivers who were exploited by the Authorities at DelhiHaryana border. He has also helped those poor people in foreign countries who died there and whose kith
and kin wanted their bodies to be brought to India for last rites. For example when a Dhaliwal family wanted
their son Tirath Singh’s body to be brought to India from Australia, the family was helped by all means. His
daughter Amanjot Kaur helps him in all these activities. Particularly, she has been dealing with those cases
of women who had been deserted by their NRI husbands. When Ramuwalia became the Minister of Prison
in U.P., he made up his mind to help the Sikh prisoners in their release if they have already completed their
sentence periods. For example, Bhai Variyam Singh has already been released and the process of releasing
other Sikhs is stated to be under examination. All these matters related to social activities particularly Sewa
as he calls, along with his political positions make him a role-model for many people.
