London: A veteran Indian-origin Labour party parliamentarian is among 50 British MPs facing the prospect of losing their traditional constituencies in a boundary shake-up unveiled today.
69-year-old British-Punjabi Labour party MP, Virendra Sharma, has represented the Ealing Southall area, with a large number of Punjabi origin electorate, for nearly a decade.
However, under proposals to cut the size of the House of Commons from 650 MPs to 600, he joins the likes of Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn and former UK Chancellor George Osborne among the high-profile politicians set to lose out in the so-called boundary review.
With the Opposition Labour party being the hardest hit by the proposals, he said he feared a Tory plan to use the changes to their own "political advantage".
The ruling Conservative party had promised to "address the unfairness of the current Parliamentary boundaries" in their 2015 General Election manifesto.
If agreed by Parliament, the new boundaries would be in place by the 2020 General Election.
Darren Williams, on Labour's ruling body national executive committee, said the boundary changes "present an opportunity" for the party to select parliamentary candidates who support Corbyn - who is facing a leadership challenge from his party MPs.
Secretary for the commission in England, Sam Hartley, said the body did not take political ramifications into account, but took an independent view.
69-year-old British-Punjabi Labour party MP, Virendra Sharma, has represented the Ealing Southall area, with a large number of Punjabi origin electorate, for nearly a decade.
However, under proposals to cut the size of the House of Commons from 650 MPs to 600, he joins the likes of Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn and former UK Chancellor George Osborne among the high-profile politicians set to lose out in the so-called boundary review.
With the Opposition Labour party being the hardest hit by the proposals, he said he feared a Tory plan to use the changes to their own "political advantage".
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The ruling Conservative party had promised to "address the unfairness of the current Parliamentary boundaries" in their 2015 General Election manifesto.
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If agreed by Parliament, the new boundaries would be in place by the 2020 General Election.
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Darren Williams, on Labour's ruling body national executive committee, said the boundary changes "present an opportunity" for the party to select parliamentary candidates who support Corbyn - who is facing a leadership challenge from his party MPs.
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Secretary for the commission in England, Sam Hartley, said the body did not take political ramifications into account, but took an independent view.
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