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From doctors, Olympians, and lawyers to cops and unionists, Indian-origin candidates take Canadian polls by storm
In all, 35 candidates in the fray have Indian roots, compared to 23 in 2020.
While the National Democratic Party (NDP) has fielded 18 Indian-origin candidates, the Conservative Party has chosen 11.
The trailblazers
It was in 1986 that Moe Sihota, whose father migrated from Bada Pind near Phillaur in 1907, became the first Indian-origin MLA in British Columbia.
There are quite a few trailblazers in these elections too.
Raj Chouhan, the NDP candidate from Burnaby-New Westminster, once the capital of BC, became the first South Asian Speaker of an assembly in North America in 2020.
Chouhan, who was good friends with now deceased Cesar Chavez, the famous American labour and civil rights activist—a photo of the two hangs in his office—founded the Canadian Farmworkers Union soon after he came to Canada in 1973.
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