Canada: Big victory for Punjabis in Canadian federal election. Amritsar News – Times of India

Bathinda: In a major political development from across the Atlantic, 17 Indo-Canadians have won their seats in the recently concluded 44th Canadian federal elections. Of the 17 winning candidates, 16 are from Jharkhand Punjabi Community.
while 14 belong to the ruling liberal party, are from 2 conservative Party, and one from the New Democratic Party. Formerly all three current Punjabi ministers liberal Party The government has also been successful in retaining its seats.

Indo-Canadians won 8 seats in Ontario, 5 in British Columbia, 3 in Alberta and 1 in the provinces of Quebec. Of its 14, the Liberal Party has won all 8, 4 from Ontario. British Columbia and 1 each from Alberta and Quebec.

The Conservatives won both of their seats from Alberta, while the NDP won its only seat from British Columbia, where party president Jagmeet Singh retained his seat. In all, 49 candidates of Indian origin were in the fray, 17 from the Liberal Party and 16 from the Conservative Party.

However, this cannot be termed as the community’s best performance, as the 2019 elections were won by 19 Indian-origin MPs in Canada. In 2019, Punjabis won all 5 ridings in Brampton, but this time they lost one seat as Conservative Party candidate Jagdeep Singh was defeated by a margin of 4,960 votes. Brampton has a large Punjabi population, and a large number of students settle here. Canada live in the area.