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The countdown for the general elections in Britain has begun. Voting will be held on Thursday, July 4 for the elections being held after five years. Rishi Sunak is in front of the public for the first time as the Prime Minister. He was made the Prime Minister in 2022 after the resignation of Conservative Party PM Boris Johnson. In this election, everyone's eyes are on the voters of Indian origin.
Before this election, the Conservative Party is facing defeat in all the surveys. It is estimated that the left-wing Labour Party is returning to power after 14 years. At this time Britain was struggling with recession. And there is a lot of anger among the public against the then Prime Minister Gordon Brown regarding Britain's role in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
Elections are being held in many countries in the year 2024. India, Pakistan, Iran and Britain. This time voting will take place in Britain on Thursday. In the British elections, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is being considered the reason for public resentment due to rising inflation. The UK economy is going through a bad phase. And taxes have increased. Apart from this, Sunak's visa and immigration rules are also complicated. Due to which the Indian community and people of Asia are also standing against it.
There are about 2.5 million Indian voters in Britain. After seeing the outrage, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and his wife visited BAPS Swaminarayan temple in London just before the elections and took the blessings of the saints. He mentioned India's victory in the T20 World Cup and also said that I am a Hindu like everyone else and my religion inspires me.
Who is against Rishi Sunak?
Britain's opposition Labour Party is led by Keir Starmer. 61-year-old Starmer is a lawyer by profession and a former public prosecutor of England and Wales. He is accepting his victory after the public support in the election campaign.
Starmer with Indian-origin voters
According to the opinion poll, the Conservative Party led by Sunak is ahead in only 155 seats. Whereas in the 2019 elections, the party led by former Prime Minister Boris Johnson won 365 seats. Whereas the Labour Party was given 403 seats in the opinion poll. There are a total of 650 seats in Britain and any party needs more than 325 seats to come to power.
How are elections held in UK?
There are two houses in the British Parliament. One is the House of Lords and the other is the House of Commons. The House of Lords has nothing to do with the general elections. Voters of the country's 650 constituencies elect their representatives or MPs for the House of Commons. These representatives together become the Prime Minister of the country and again form the government by selecting the Prime Minister and ministers.
Just as in India, the Prime Minister is elected from the Lok Sabha MPs, similarly it happens in Britain too. Rajya Sabha is the upper house of India. House of Lords is the upper house of Britain.
How many candidates of Indian origin are there in the British elections?
This time, the largest number of candidates of Indian origin have entered the electoral fray in Britain. Out of 650 candidates, 107 are of Indian origin. Out of these, 30 candidates are from the Conservative Party. There are 33 candidates from the Labour Party, 13 from the Green Party and 11 from the Liberal Democrats. These include Reva Godi, Nupur Majumdar, Rajesh Agarwal and Mohammad Hanif.