Canada elections 2021: Jagmeet Singh set to play kingmaker as Justin Trudeau fails to prove majority
Canada elections 2021: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's ruling Liberal Party again ended up 14 seats short of the 170-mark in the 338-member House of Commons.
On the other hand, the Jagmeet Singh-led New Democratic Party (NDP) has increased its tally from 24 to 27. The main opposition Conservative Party ended up with a tally of 122 seats – one up from the dissolved House in the Canada elections 2021. The situation clearly points towards the fact that Jagmeet Singh is set to play kingmaker.
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Among the 17 Indo-Canadian winners are Jagmeet Singh, former Minister Tim Uppal and three current Cabinet Ministers Harjit Singh Sajjan, Bardish Chagger and Anita Anand.
Defence Minister Harjit Singh Sajjan again won from Vancouver South by beating Sukhbir Gill of the Conservative Party. Chagger, Minister of Diversity, too retained her Waterloo seat as did Public Service Minister Anand her Oakville seat.
NDP leader Jagmeet Singh also retained his Burnaby South seat in British Columbia.
In British Columbia, three-time Liberal Party MP Sukh Dhaliwal retained his Surrey-Newton seat by beating fellow Punjabi Avneet Johal of the NDP. Two-time Liberal Party MP Randeep Singh Sarai also won the Surrey Centre seat by beating Sonia Andhi of the NDP.
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In Quebec, the sitting Indo-Canadian Anju Dhillon retained her Dorval—Lachine—LaSalle seat. In Alberta, Jasraj Singh Hallan retained the Calgary Forest Lawn seat, but his fellow Conservative MP Jag Sahota lost to fellow Sikh George Chahal of the Liberal Party.
The brother-in-law of Congress MLA from Jalandhar Cantt, Pargat Singh, Tim Uppal is back once again after retaining the Edmonton Mill Woods seat for the Conservative party.
In Ontario, Brampton again re-elected all four sitting Indo-Canadian MPs – Maninder Sidhu, Ruby Sahota, Sonia Sidhu and Kamal Khera – against fellow Indo-Canadians Naval Bajaj, Medha Joshi, Ramandeep Brar and Gurprit Gill, respectively. The winners belong to Trudeau's Liberal Party. Chandra Arya, too, retained the Napean seat in Ontario.
Lawyer Iqwinder Gaheer, who won the Mississauga-Malton seat for the Liberal Party, will be one of the youngest MPs to go the House of Commons in Ottawa. Sitting Conservative Party MP Bob Saroya was another known Indo-Canadian face to lose the elections.
-PTC News with inputs from agencies
