pio: no PIO winner in Australian election – Times of India

Indian origin candidates have not done well AustraliaFederal elections of 2022 on Saturday. The biggest trouble was the defeat of Liberal MP Devanand (Dave) Sharma, who lost his seat of Wentworth, New South Wales, which covers some of Sydney’s exclusive and wealthy suburbs, to Allegra Spender, an independent candidate supported by Climate 200. it was done. Funded and campaigned on policies of climate action and accountability in politics. Sharma Has held top public positions in the past, including Australia’s envoy to Israel. He won the Wentworth seat in the 2019 elections by a narrow margin and became Australia’s first Indian-origin legislator. Parliament,
Liberal candidate of Indian origin Jugandeep Singh lost to Ed Husik Labour In another Sydney suburb, home of the seat of representatives of Chifley. one more PIO Amit Batish of the right-wing populist One Nation Party also lost from the same seat.
One Nation’s candidate for Makin in South Australia, Rajan Vaid, also lost the election in the federal election. He was born and brought up in Delhi and is an electronics engineer working in telecommunications and a community volunteer. In the 2019 election, he was the Conservative National Party’s candidate from the Hindmarsh electorate in South Australia. “After bringing my family to Adelaide so that we can experience the opportunities to live, learn and work in Australia, I found that the system here can do a lot for everyone in this country. Australia is friendly, smart, hardworking people With the right policies, the right incentives and the right representatives doing the right things, there is so much potential for Australians to learn more, do more and achieve more. are,” he had said in his election campaign.
In Veriwa, New South Wales, Greens Party candidate Apoorva Shukla got only 6.6% of the vote. The 22-year-old is a computer science graduate and his parents immigrated to Sydney from India when he was one year old. The issues Shukla raised during his campaign were climate action; Ending mental and dental health care and student loans in Medicare and making university free.
In the crucial seat of Sydney, Indian-origin Green Party candidate Chetan Sahai came second in the race and lost. Tanya PlibersekA senior Labor Party politician who was re-elected.
In New South Wales, the Liberal candidate Pradip Pathie lost the Greenway seat to Labor’s Michel Rowland by 37.7% of the vote. The Labor candidate retained the seat with 62% of the vote. Born in Hyderabad, Pathi moved to Australia in 2005 and has been working in financial services for the past 20 years. As for his election campaign, he is passionate about building a strong local community and understands the day-to-day pressures of local families. If elected, he will focus on easing the pressure of living, improving local roads and transport, and ensuring the growing region in North West Sydney has access to world-class hospitals and healthcare. It will also create opportunities and help small businesses grow and create jobs. Independent Punjabi candidate Lovepreet Singh Nanda also lost from this seat.
In McMahon, New South Wales, Vivek Singha, a PIO of the Liberal Party, lost to veteran Labor member of parliament Chris Bowen. Singha was second and fought with 40% of the votes.
Harmeet Kaur, Rajesh Kumar and trimman gill Those who contested for the Senate, the upper house of the Australian Parliament from Adelaide, South Australia, also lost.
In all, 25 Indian-origin candidates contested the Australian election, in which the opposition Labor Party defeated the Liberal Party’s Conservative government after nearly a decade in power.
So far, Indians are under-represented in Australia’s federal parliament, while the government is well represented at the state and local levels. There are not as many people of Indian origin in politics and public life in Australia as there are in countries like the US, UK and Canada.