| Ujjal Dosanjh was born and
raised in India ,emigrated to England at the age of 17
and came to Canada in 1968. He worked as a janitor and
then in a sawmill, till he eventually joined school to
earn a law degree and get enrolled with the Bar in
1977.Dosanjh has a B.A. in political science from Simon
Fraser University, and a law degree from UBC. Along the
way, he was a millworker and the assistant editor of a
Punjabi newspaper. He also taught English as a Second
Language to new Canadians at Vancouver Community
College. He established his own law practice in
Vancouver in 1979. He has a long track record as a human
rights activist — setting up the first farmworkers'
legal information service in 1977. He's also been
involved in South Vancouver Neighbourhood House, MOSAIC,
the B.C. Multicultural Society and the B.C. Civil
Liberties Association. After he spoke out against Sikh
extremism and violence in 1985, he was attacked and
beaten with an iron bar in the parking lot outside his
law office. His injuries were serious — requiring 80
stitches. After running and losing in the 1979 and 1983
elections, he was elected the NDP MLA for
Vancouver-Kensington in 1991. He was the B.C. Attorney
General and Minister Responsible for Multiculturalism,
Human Rights, and Immigration. He is married with three
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Mr.Dosanjh visited India in December,during his 18-day
visit,he met with the Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee,
Ministers, senior leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party and AP
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