UK PM picks three new Indian-origin MPs from 2024 intake to join front bench

Satvir Kaur, Kanishka Narayan, Harpreet Uppal (Credit: ©House of Commons)TOI correspondent from London: Three Indian-origin young Labour MPs elected at the July 2024 general election have been given front bench roles in UK PM Andy Burnham’s new govt.Kanishka Narayan (36), a Hindu, joins the Cabinet in the newly-created role of AI minister, whilst two female Sikh MPs , Satvir Kaur (41) and Harpreet Uppal (43), have been awarded front bench roles.There are now two Hindus and two Sikhs on the front bench as Uma Kumaran, a Hindu of Sri Lankan heritage, has been made a junior minister in the foreign office.Meanwhile two high-profile PIO MPs, Seema Malhotra, who had been Indo-Pacific minister, and Preet Kaur Gill, who was junior health minister, both aged 53 with ancestral roots in Jalandhar, Pu