Navnit Dholakia, Baron Dholakia

The Right Honourable
The Lord Dholakia
OBE PC DL
The Right Honourable The Lord Dholakia OBE PC DL
Co-Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 24 November 2004 Serving with The Lord Wallace of Saltaire (2004–2010); The Baroness Walmsley (2017-)
President of the Liberal Democrats
	In office; 1 January 2001 – 31 December 2004
Leader	Charles Kennedy
Preceded by	Diana Maddock
Succeeded by	Simon Hughes
Member of the House of Lords; Lord Temporal
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 24 October 1997; Life Peerage
Personal details
Born	4 March 1937 (age 86)
Political party	Liberal Democrats
Spouse(s)	Ann McLuskie
Children	2

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Navnit Dholakia, Baron Dholakia OBE PC DL (born 4 March 1937) is a British Liberal Democrat politician and the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords.

Education[edit]

Educated in India and Tanzania, Dholakia came to Britain to study at Brighton Technical College. He took his first job as Medical Laboratory Technician at Southlands Hospital in Shoreham-by-Sea.

Political career[edit]

He became active in the Liberal party and was elected to Brighton Borough Council between 1961 and 1964.

From 1976 he served as member of the Commission for Racial Equality and has been involved in the Sussex Police Authority, Police Complaints Authority and Howard League for Penal Reform. He is the current chair of Nacro, and also chairs its Race Issues Advisory Committee.^[1]

Dholakia was created a life peer as Baron Dholakia, of Waltham Brooks in the County of West Sussex on 24 October 1997,^[2] and sat on the Liberal Democrat benches in the House of Lords.

From 1997 to 2002 he served as a Liberal Democrat whip in the House, and from 2002 to 2004 he was the Home Affairs Spokesman.

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.^[3]

Dholakia is involved with a range of charities including being a Patron of the British branch of Child In Need India (CINI UK).^[4]

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.

Dholakia was appointed to the Privy Council (PC) in December 2010.

Personal life[edit]

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 origin.^[5]

Sources[edit]

Lord Dholakia biography at the site of Liberal Democrats
UK Hindu youths' quest to find roots Times of India - 26 July 2001

References[edit]

↑ "Expert Advisor: Lord Navnit Dholakia". Metropolitan Police Authority. Retrieved 5 April 2013.
↑ "No. 54933". The London Gazette. 29 October 1997. p. 12149.
↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 20 May 2011. Retrieved 7 March 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 20 January 2012. Retrieved 11 January 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
↑ Kasturi, Charu Sudan (25 August 2014). "UK plays Gujarati card in wooing game". The Telegraph.

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Preceded by Diana Maddock	President of the Liberal Democrats 2000–2004	Succeeded by Simon Hughes
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[1] "Expert Advisor: Lord Navnit Dholakia". Metropolitan Police Authority. Retrieved 5 April 2013.

[2] "No. 54933". The London Gazette. 29 October 1997. p. 12149.

[3] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 20 May 2011. Retrieved 7 March 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[4] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 20 January 2012. Retrieved 11 January 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[5] Kasturi, Charu Sudan (25 August 2014). "UK plays Gujarati card in wooing game". The Telegraph.

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