• Ujjal Dosanjh, former premier of British Columbia , was named health minister

• Ontario
• British Columbia
• Alberta

( NRI) 36 South Asians as registering for candidates in Canadian general elections poll on June 28.

Ontario:

In Mississauga South Brampton Navdeep Singh Bains, a Liberal, is going against Conservative Parminder Sandhu.

In Mississauga-Streetsville election riding, there is Liberal Wajid Khan, Conservative Nina Tangri and New Democratic Party's Majinder Rai.

The Green Party's Sanjeev Goel is running from Brampton West. Rupinder Nannar (Conservative), Troy Ramcharitar (NDP) and Mir Kamal (Green) are trying their muscle against incumbent Liberal Roy Cullen in Etobicoke North in Toronto, another heavily South Asian area.

Incumbent Liberal MP Gurbax Malhi, is running again from his Barmalea-Gore-Malton precinct, as is Conservative party hopeful Raminder Gill.

In the Brampton, Springdale, Mississauga areas in suburban Toronto, which houses the largest concentration of Indo-Canadians, there's Liberal Party nominee Ruby Dhalla, a novice politician, opposed by Conservative Party choice Gurjit Grewal.

NRI Candidates for Canada's federal election in Ontaio:

• Raminder Gill for Member of Parliament from Bramalea-Gore-Malton
• Gurbax S. Malhi, Liberal, Barmalea-Gore-Malton, Ontario -> Elected
• Ruby Dhalla, Liberal, Brampton, Ontario-> Elected
• Sam Hundal, Conservative, Brampton, Ontario
• Mir Kamal, Green party, Etobicoke, Toronto
• Rupinder Nannar, Conservative, Etobicoke, Toronto
• Anwar Naqvi, NDP, Halton, Ontario
• Jamile Gaddar, Marxist-Leninist Paty, Hamilton, Ontario
• Navdeep Bains, Liberal, Mississauga, Ontario-> Elected
• Parvinder Sandhu, Conservative, Mississauga, Ontario
• Neeraj Jain, Green Party, Mississauga, Ontario
• Wajid Khan, Liberal, Mississauga, Ontario
• Nina Tangri, Consevative, Mississauga, Ontario
• Maninder Rai, NDP, Mississauga, Ontario
• Jim Gill, NDP, Mississauga, Ontario
• Saroj Bains, Marxist-Leninist, Ottawa South, Ontario
• Asif Hossain, Progressive Conservative Party, Trinity-Spadina

British Columbia

InFleetwood-Port Kells district, Liberal Gulzar Cheema is running against Conservative Nina Grewal and a host of other party candidates.

In Newton-North Delta, incumbent Conservative MP Gurmant Grewal is being challenged by Liberal Sukh Dhaliwal.

NDP candidate Pummy Kaur is going against several other party candidates in the South Surrey-White Rock-Cloverdale riding. In Surrey North, NDP's Jaswant Singh Cheema and Green Party's Sunny Athwal are trying their luck.

A former New Democratic Party (NDP) leader and one-time Premier of British Columbia Ujjal Dosanjh, who has switched parties and become a Liberal Party candidate from Vancouver South precinct from where former Liberal MP Herb Dhaliwal was elected several times. Prime Minister Paul Martin had removed him from his cabinet post. Dhaliwal is not seeking re-election

NRI Candidates for Canada's federal election in British Columbia

• Ujjal Dosanjh, Liberal, Vancouver South, B.C.-> Elected
• Gurbax Saini, Liberal, Cariboo-Prince George, British Columbia (B.C.)
• Arjun Singh, Independent, Kamloops-Thompson, B.C.
• Hira Chopra, Liberal, Nanaimo-Alberni, B.C.
• Sukh Dhaliwal, Liberal, Newton- North Delta, B.C.
• Nina Grewal, Conservative, Fleetwood-Port Kells, B.C.-> Elected
• Gurmant grewal (incumbent), Newton-North Delta, B.C.-> Elected
• Nazir Rizvi, Communist, Newton-North Delta, B.C.
• Jasbir Singh Cheema, Conservative, Newton-North Delta, B.C.
• Sunny Athwal, Green Party, Newton- North Delta, B.C.
• Noor Ahmed, Liberal, Newton-North Delta, B.C.
  

Prince George riding

A Liberal, is running in the interior Cariboo

Alberta

Vinay Dey, NDP, Calgary North, Alberta
NRI Deepak Obhrai from the Calgary-> Elected
Tim Uppal, Conservative, Edmonton, Alberta
Moe Saeed, Liberal, Edmonton, Alberta
James Rajotte, Conservative, Edmonton, Alberta
Rahim Jaffer, incumbent, Conservative, Edmonton, Alberta

 

Quebec

Mustaque Sarker, Conservative Party, Papineau, Quebec
Sonia Bisson, NDP, Shefford, Quebec

Manitoba

Raj Joshi, Conservative, Winnipeg, Manitoba

Newfoundland & Labrador

Siobhan Coady, St. John's South, Newfoundland & Labrador