Navnit Dholakia, Baron Dholakia
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The Right Honourable The Lord Dholakia OBE PC DL |
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| Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords | |
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Assumed office 24 November 2004 Serving with The Lord Wallace of Saltaire (2004–2010) |
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| President of the Liberal Democrats | |
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In office 1 January 2001 – 31 December 2004 |
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| Leader | Charles Kennedy |
| Preceded by | Diana Maddock |
| Succeeded by | Simon Hughes |
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| Born | 4 March 1937 |
| Political party | Liberal Democrats |
| Spouse(s) | Ann McLuskie |
| Children | 2 |
| Religion | Hinduism |
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.
Educated in India and Tanzania, Dholakia came to Britain to study at Brighton Technical College. His first job as Medical Laboratory Technician at Southlands Hospital in Shoreham-by-Sea.
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.
Dholakia was made a life peer as Baron Dholakia, of Waltham Brooks in the County of West Sussex, in 1997, 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.
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