Sikhs for Labour have announced that six Sikhs have been selected as candidates for the Labour Party in the upcoming election.
It is said to be the highest number of Sikh candidates to ever stand at General Election for any party in the United Kingdom.
The full list is as follows.
Birmingham Edgbaston Preet Kaur Gill
Hornchurch & Upminster Rocky Gill
Kenilworth & Southam Bally Singh
Slough Tanmanjeet Dhesi
Telford Kuldip Singh Sahota
Tewkesbury Manjinder Singh Kang
Sikhs for Labour was set up in 2014 to ensure that there was strong Sikh representation on the Labour benches in Parliament, as well as to help guide policy issues for the Party.
Neena Gill CBE MEP, Chair of Sikhs for Labour, said, “We have been fighting for greater Sikh representation at Westminster for the last three years. In the last Parliament there was not a single Sikh MP.
"We're delighted that the campaign led by Sikhs for Labour has had a successful result and that we now have potentially six MPs.”
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