London: Anand Patil, an NRI ex-councillor of the London Borough of Newham has been conferred with the second V K Krishna Menon award.
Dr Cyriac Maprayil, Director of the V K Krishna Menon Institute presented the award to Patil, who served the people of East London for over 40 years.
Born in Maharashtra in India, Patil came to UK in 1964 for higher studies but stayed on to work for the welfare of the working people from the Indian subcontinent, Dr Maprayil said today.
V K Krishna Menon Institute was established to celebrate and commemorate the life and times of Menon, a prodigiously talented, deeply patriotic, academically and intellectually gifted lawyer.
Menon, who was born on May 3,1897,was an expert on international law and an eloquent orator and statesman, one of the greatest that ever lived.
Menon, who set up the India League in the UK in 1940s, was a councillor in the then Borough Council of St Pancras, now Camden.
After independence, he served as India's first High Commissioner to the UK. He was also the leader of the Indian Delegation to the UN.
Menon had also served as India's defence minister from 1957 to 1962.
