Navin Fakirchand Shah (born September 1946) is a British Labour Party politician. Shah moved to the

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in 1973 to study at

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. He joined the Labour Party in 1977 and was elected to

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as a councillor for Kenton East Ward in 1994. Shah was Leader of Harrow Council from 2004 to 2006, and remained the Harrow Labour Group Leader until June 2008. He was elected as a member of the

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at the 2008 assembly elections, taking the constituency seat of

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, beating

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incumbent

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. He was re-elected in

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and

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. He later challenged Blackman for his Harrow East parliamentary seat at the

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, and was defeated by just 1,757 votes. With the deferral of 2020 London Assembly election he was elected chair of

on the 15 May 2020 succeeding

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. Shah was appointed

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(CBE) in the

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for political and public service.

References

1946 births Living people Labour Members of the London Assembly Councillors in the London Borough of Harrow Architects from London Alumni of University College London British politicians of Indian descent Indian emigrants to the United Kingdom Commanders of the Order of the British Empire People from Ahmedabad {{UK-politician-stub