With the 2024 UK General Election set to take place on July 4, more British Tamils than ever before have been named as candidates with a range of Britain’s political parties.
The Tamil Guardian caught up with the candidates this month, as they vie to become one of the UK’s first-ever British Tamil parliamentarians.
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Candidate for Stratford and Bow
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Gavin Haran, Conservative Party
Candidate for Southend East and Rochford
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Naranee Ruthra-Rajan, The Green Party
Candidate for Hammersmith and Chiswick
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Kamala Kugan, Liberal Democrats
Candidate for Stalybridge and Hyde
Mayuran Senthilnathan, Reform UK
Chrishni Reshekaron, Labour Party
Candidate for Sutton and Cheam
Interviews will be published daily in the run-up to the general election. Interviews are being published in the order that responses were received.
All candidates were given the same set of questions and their responses are being published in full.
Chrishni Reshekaron was contacted for an interview but a response was not provided.