Jessie Singh Saini, full name Jaswinder Singh Saini, is the founder of BJS Electronics and an American industrialist of Indian descent. Jessie is also a well known political donor in California and both Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton

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 and Al Gore

Al Gore

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  have paid visits to his house during their incumbencies as President and Vice President of USA.

Origin and early life

Jessie belongs to village Saini Majra near DinaNagar in Gurdaspur district of Punjab. He completed his education at Punjab Agriculutral University at Ludhiana before migrating to USA in 1986.

Awards and recognition

Jessie was the first Indian to receive the Civil rights award – the Edna Magee Award from the Santa Clara County in 1998. He also went to the Philippines as a state guest in 1996 and was honored by the Pope for helping to raise money for Vietnamese refugees stranded in the Philippines.

He was also honored in his native Punjab with Punjab Ratan award by Prakash Singh Badal, the Chief Minister

Chief Minister

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of Punjab.