Navnit Dholakia, Baron Dholakia

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Navnit Dholakia, Baron Dholakia OBE PC (born March 4, 1937 ) is a British politician of the Liberal Democrats . He is vice chairman of the party and vice chairman of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords . Lord Dholakia is one of the longest serving politicians with an Asian immigrant background in Great Britain.

education

He grew up in India and Tanzania . Dholakia came to the UK to study at the Brighton College of Technology. His first job was as a laboratory technician at Southlands Hospital in Shoreham-by-Sea .

Political career

He entered the Liberal Party and was elected to Brighton City Council, where he sat from 1961 to 1964.

From 1976 he worked on the Commission for Racial Equality and on committees investigating police crimes and penal reform.

Dholakia was raised to life peer status in 1997 as Baron Dholakia , of Waltham Brooks in the County of West Sussex, and has since sat for the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords .

From 1997 to 2002 he was Whip in the House of Lords for the Liberal Democrats , and from 2002 to 2004 he was spokesman for domestic affairs.

At the end of 1999 he was elected President of the Liberal Democrats and held that post from 2000 to 2004. In November 2004 he became the second deputy group chairman and in 2010 he became the group's deputy chairman.

Dholakia is committed to various charities, including Child In Need India (CINI UK).

In 1994 he was named Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE). In 2000 he was named Asian of the Year and in 2005 he received the Pride of India Award . In 2009 he was awarded a Dr. hc from the University of Hertfordshire . He has been Deputy Lieutenant (DL) in West Sussex since 1999 .

In December 2010 Dholakia became a member of the Privy Council .

Personal

He has been married to Ann McLuskie since 1967. They have two daughters and live in West Sussex.

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