Indian Doctor to contest for British Parliamentary seat

Bangalore, Mar 15 (UNI) Dr Neeraj Patil of Kamalapura in Gulbarga District of Karnataka, will be contesting for British Parliamentary seat as Labour Party candidate.

The 38-year-old doctor and consultant at the Kingston Hospital in South-East London, thus earns the distinction of being the first Indian Citizen after Dadabhai Naoroji, Piara Khabra and Keith Vaz to contest for a Parliamentary seat in Britain on behalf of a major political party.

Dr Patil will be contesting against Conservative Education Minister Michal Gove in the British Parliamentary elections due in May 2009, a press release stated here today.

After spending 14 years in the UK practicing medicine, Dr Patil has achieved significant recognition as a Labour Party representative after he was elected as councilor of Lambeth Council in London in 2006.

Dr Patil is grandson of Freedom Fighter Shankar Shetty Patil, who was also a member of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly. His mother Dr Parvati Devi Patil is a retired professor of medicine.

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