Labour party picks UK-based NRI to contest from Slough constituency
Monday, 01/05/2017
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Jalandhar : Making Sikhs proud worldwide, UK based Sikh NRI, Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (39) has been picked up as Labour party candidate from Slough constituency.
Dhesi could become the first turbaned MP in the UK parliament. He was picked up for the Slough constituency after the outgoing MP Fiona Mactaggart announced to step down recently. Earlier also, this constituency has been represented by the labour party.
It was expected that the Dhesi could win from Slough comfortably, as Labour party has earlier won this seat by a margin of 7,500 votes.
Reacting to the Labour party’s decision, Dhesi said, “Humbled to be selected as #UK #Labour’s Parliamentary Candidate for #Slough. Hope to have the honour of serving the town, where I was born & raised.”
Hailing from Raipur village in Jalandhar district, Dhesi’s family is currently settled in Phagwara. Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi did his primary schooling from Jalandhar after which he migrated to UK and pursued Mathematics with Management Studies at University College London.
Later, he studied Applied Statistics at Keble College, Oxford University and then went on study History and Politics of South Asia and its connections with Great Britain, while doing his M.Phil at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University. He studied in three top most universities of UK.
Dhesi’s father, Jaspal Singh Dhesi who owns a company in UK has the distinction of being the President of Gurdwara Guru Nanak Darbar, Gravesend, which is the largest gurdwara in the UK.
Jaspal Singh Dhesi is the brother SAD leader Paramjit Singh Raipur and during the recently concluded Assembly Elections 2017, Jaspal was seeking ticket from the crucial Jalandhar Cantonment assembly seat.
It is pertinent to mention here, Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi has contested as Labour candidate from Gravesham Parliamentary constituency but lost in the General Elections in UK.
Earlier, Dhesi was first elected to Gravesham Borough Council from the Northfleet North ward in 2007. Dhesi was also unanimously elected as Chair of the Gravesham Labour Party twice, before stepping down after being unanimously elected as Mayor of Gravesham in the year 2011. He also remained the youngest Sikh Mayor in Europe.
