Community News Desk, Canada: With the Canadian Ontario Provincial Election coming up on June 2, the whole province is now in the throes of voting. This election is seen as very important for Ontarians for a number of reasons. But it has created a special significance in the Bangladeshi community.
Dolly Begum was elected by the NDP in 2016 and set a glorious record for the Bangladeshi community. He is also a candidate in Scarborough Southwest Riding.
Apart from Dolly Begum, two other candidates of Bangladeshi descent have joined the fray this time with nominations from two major political parties. Etobicoke – NDP candidate Farheen Alim from Lakeshore and Kaniz Mouli from Oakville North Burlington are running as Liberal Party candidates.
Expatriate Bengalis in Ontario, Canada have seen a great deal of preparation and reaction to the election. Already a large number of people from the community have gathered on the opening day of the election office of NDP candidate Dolly Begum.
Convinced to be the winner, NDP candidate Dolly Begum told the media that she had been vocal in parliament on various Ontario issues for the past four years. He has been vocal about the problems of immigrants. Evaluating his four years of work, voters hope he will win again.
Dolly Begum said the voters in my constituency are mainly immigrants. As a member of an immigrant family, I want to understand their problems better.
O’Keefe, a Liberal Party candidate from North Burlington, told the media that the Ontario Liberal Party was voting for the most progressive and progressive thinking program for Ontario’s middle class. He hopes that the people will vote for him this time because of their program.
Kaniz Mouli, an active politician from the university, said he became a candidate after gaining direct experience in politics and administration. He hopes to win the election.
“I am a high school teacher, not a professional politician,” Farheen Alim, an NDP candidate from Etobicoke-Lakeshore, told the media. But seeing the suffering of my students in the Kovid epidemic, I became a candidate in the election. “I want to work on the problems of immigrants and middle-class people,” said Farhin Alim, optimistic about his victory.
Regarding the candidacy of Bangladeshi descent in Ontario’s provincial elections, Shawgat Ali Sagar, editor-in-chief of Canada’s New Country newspaper and a journalist, said:
“We want to see more winning expatriates in mainstream Canadian politics in the future, not just candidates, to build a strong bridge between Bangladesh and Canada,” he said, emphasizing greater participation in mainstream politics.
