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12 Indian-origin are MPs in England

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Published on June 17, 2017 with No Comments

Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi becomes first turban wearing MP in England

Britain last week elected two Sikh MPs as the general election that resulted in a hung parliament.

Labour candidate Preet Kaur Gill won her Birmingham Edgbaston seat by polling 24,124 votes, defeating ruling Conservative party rival Caroline Squire by 6,917 votes.

Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi, better known as Tan, won his Slough seat  polling 34,170 votes, to become Labour’s first turban-wearing MP. However the first turbaned wearing MP outside India-the record would remain in the name of Gurbax Singh Malhi represented Bramalea, Gore-Malton in Canadian parliament.

A second turban-wearing Sikh of the Labour Party Kuldip Sahota lost out to his Conservative rival by just 720 votes.

All other incumbent Indian origin MPs retained their seats, while the Conservative’s Paul Uppal failed to retake Wolverhampton South West even though his share of the vote rose

Among other Indian-origin contestants, Conservative party’s Priti Patel has held on to her stronghold of Witham in Essex, Alok Sharma has held on to Reading West and Shailesh Vara has won in Cambridgeshire North West by 18,008 votes.

The 2015 general election first-timers for the Tories Rishi Sunak and Suella Fernandes have also held on to their seats decisively. For the Labour party, the longest serving Indian-origin MP Keith Vaz held on to his Leicester East seat and his sister Valerie Vaz also won a solid 25,286 votes to hold on to her Walsall South seat.

Lisa Nandy won in Wigan for Labour, Seema Malhotra held on to Feltham & Heston and Virendra Sharma polled 31,720 in his safe seat of Ealing Southall.

Among the prominent losses was Labour’s Neeraj Patil — the former mayor of the London Borough of Lambeth — lost to Justine Greening, the UK’s Education Minister. He lost by a margin of 1,554 votes to Greening, who was defending her Conservative party stronghold.

 

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