Indian community hails Boris Johnson's massive election victory in UK

Indian community applauded victory of re-elected Prime Minister of United Kingdom Boris Johnson on Friday, December 13. Johnson acquired a thumping majority in British Parliament with 364 seats which also saw unprecedented activism by community members against UK main opposition Labour Party for its anti-India stance.

During his victory speech, Johnson also dressed enthusiastic audience roaring phrases like, 'we did it', 'we pulled it off', 'broke delock'. 

Across both winning Conservative Party as well as Labour Party, Indian-origin candidates registered strong results in UK general elections on December 12. Dozens of politicians retained ir seats in British Parliament along with some new faces.

Boris Johnson was re-elected as Prime Minister assuring Parliament of a Brexit-dominated outcome. All Indian-origin members of Parliament were successful in clinching ir seats, with first-timers being Gagan Mohindra and Claire Coutinho for Conservatives and Navendru Mishra for Labour.

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Indian-origin MP's in election

Goan-origin Coutinho said that it is 'time to get Brexit done' and n move on to investing in British schools, hospitals and police in order to keep streets safe.

Coutinho won Tory-held Surrey East seat with 35,624 votes, with a Conservative majority of 24,040 with Mohindra retained his South West seat with 30,327 votes and a majority of 14,408.

former UK homes secretary, Priti Patel also retained her place in parliament and is likely to remain in Johnson's top team in new cabinet as well. Patel acquired 32,876 votes at her Witham constituency in Essex and held on to a majority of 24,082 for Conservatives.

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Even Patel's Cabinet colleagues mand to have a positive outcome in UK general elections. Rishi Sunak clinched 36,693 votes and Alok Sharma, former international development minister polled 24,393 votes from Reing West. Shailesh Vara won rth West Cambridgeshire seat with a majority of 25,983. Suella Braverman also clinched 36,459 votes for Fareham.  

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Call to British Indians

Johnson's Conservative party h yet again attempted, to woo British Indians for support just ahe of general elections in Britain on December 12. Before Thursday polls, Conservatives called  Indian voters by circulating a video in Hindi featuring Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi along with Johnson.

Such attempts to target British Indians were first seen in 2015, n in 2017 and w again for most recent elections. Johnson's closeness with Indian community in Britain was also seen in his recent visit to BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir in Neasden, rth-west London on December 7.

During his visit, Johnson also recalled his conversations with PM Modi. Furrmore, Johnson me it categorically clear that anti-India sentiment would t be tolerated in UK.

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(With PTI inputs)