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| name = The Lord Dholakia<br />
| honorific-suffix = [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] [[Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council|PC]] [[Deputy Lieutenant|DL]]<br />
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| office = Co-Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats in the [[House of Lords]]<br />
| term_start = 24 November 2004<br />
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| alongside = [[William Wallace, Baron Wallace of Saltaire|The Lord Wallace of Saltaire]] (2004–2010)<br/>[[Joan Walmsley, Baroness Walmsley|The Baroness Walmsley]] (2017-)<br />
| office1 = [[President of the Liberal Democrats]]<br />
| term_start2 = 1 January 2001<br />
| term_end2 = 31 December 2004<br />
| leader2 = [[Charles Kennedy]]<br />
| preceded2 = [[Diana Maddock, Baroness Maddock|Diana Maddock]]<br />
| succeeded2 = [[Simon Hughes]]<br />
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|office3 = [[Member of the House of Lords]]<br>[[Lord Temporal]]<br />
|term_start3 = 24 October 1997<br>[[Life Peerage]]<br />
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| party = [[Liberal Democrats (UK)|Liberal Democrats]]<br />
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| spouse = Ann McLuskie<br />
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'''Navnit Dholakia, Baron Dholakia''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|OBE|PC|DL}} (born 4 March 1937) is a British [[Liberal Democrats (UK)|Liberal Democrat]] politician and the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats in the [[House of Lords]].<br />
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==Education==<br />
Educated in [[India]] and [[Tanzania]], Dholakia came to Britain to study at [[City College Brighton & Hove|Brighton Technical College]]. He took his first job as [[Medical Laboratory Technician]] at [[Southlands Hospital]] in [[Shoreham-by-Sea]].<br />
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==Political career==<br />
He became active in the [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal party]] and was elected to [[Brighton Borough Council]] between 1961 and 1964.<br />
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From 1976 he served as member of the [[Commission for Racial Equality]] and has been involved in the [[Sussex]] Police Authority, [[Police Complaints Authority (United Kingdom)|Police Complaints Authority]] and [[Howard League for Penal Reform]]. He is the current chair of [[Nacro]], and also chairs its Race Issues Advisory Committee.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://policeauthority.org/metropolitan/scrutinies/gvirdi/members/dholakia/index.html|title=Expert Advisor: Lord Navnit Dholakia|publisher=Metropolitan Police Authority|access-date=5 April 2013}}</ref><br />
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Dholakia was created a [[life peer]] as '''Baron Dholakia''', ''of [[Waltham Brooks]] in the County of [[West Sussex]]'' on 24 October 1997,<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=54933 |date=29 October 1997 |page=12149}}</ref> and sat on the Liberal Democrat benches in the [[House of Lords]].<br />
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From 1997 to 2002 he served as a Liberal Democrat [[whip (politics)|whip]] in the House, and from 2002 to 2004 he was the Home Affairs Spokesman.<br />
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He was elected [[President of the Liberal Democrats]] at the end of 1999 and served in the post from 2000 to 2004. In November 2004 he was elected joint [[Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats]] in the House of Lords. In 2010 he became the sole Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.libdems.org.uk/news_detail.aspx?title=Liberal_Democrat_Peers_re-elect_Lord_Dholakia_as_Deputy_Leader&pPK=d6542a83-7ae1-407b-b39e-2f33e953930e |title=Archived copy |access-date=2011-03-07 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110520074211/http://libdems.org.uk/news_detail.aspx?title=Liberal_Democrat_Peers_re-elect_Lord_Dholakia_as_Deputy_Leader&pPK=d6542a83-7ae1-407b-b39e-2f33e953930e |archive-date=20 May 2011 |df=dmy-all }}</ref><br />
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Dholakia is involved with a range of charities including being a Patron of the British branch of [[Child In Need Institute (CINI)|Child In Need India]] (CINI UK).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cini.org.uk/about.html |title=Archived copy |access-date=2012-01-11 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120120104023/http://www.cini.org.uk/about.html |archive-date=20 January 2012 |df=dmy-all }}</ref><br />
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In 1994 he was made an [[Officer of the Order of the British Empire]] (OBE). In 2000 he was named 'Asian of the Year', and won the Pride of India Award in 2005. In November 2009 he was given an honorary doctorate from the [[University of Hertfordshire]]. He was a [[Deputy Lieutenant]] (DL) in the county of [[West Sussex]] from 1999 to 2012.<br />
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Dholakia was appointed to the [[Privy Council]] (PC) in December 2010.<br />
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==Personal life==<br />
He has been married to Lady Dholakia, [[née]] Ann McLuskie, since 1967. They have two daughters and live in [[West Sussex]]. He is a [[Hindu]] of [[Gujarati people|Gujarati]] origin.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/1140826/jsp/nation/story_18761935.jsp|title=UK plays Gujarati card in wooing game|last=Kasturi|first=Charu Sudan|publisher=[[The Telegraph (Calcutta)|The Telegraph]]|date=August 25, 2014}}</ref><br />
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==Sources==<br />
*[http://www.libdems.org.uk/peers_detail.aspx?name=Lord_Dholakia&pPK=ace20ec3-df7e-460a-b2b2-de278d72a32a Lord Dholakia] biography at the site of Liberal Democrats<br />
*[http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/91630367.cms UK Hindu youths' quest to find roots] Times of India - 26 July 2001<br />
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