She wrote to MoS for Civil Aviation Jayant Sinha saying she had been receiving requests from Punjabis as well as NRIs regarding difficulties faced by them due to non-availability of direct flights connecting Birmingham and Amritsar.
Harsimrat, in a statement here, said she had informed the Union minister that a number of expatriates from Punjab were residing in and around Birmingham, and frequently travelled to Amritsar to pay obeisance at Sri Harmandar Sahib, also known as the Golden Temple.
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