Mohinder Saran is a politician in

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, Canada. He represented the electoral division of The Maples in the

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from 2007 until 2019. He was first elected in the 2007 provincial election. Saran was re-elected as a member of the

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in two subsequent elections and served as Minister of Housing and Community Development from 2015 to 2016 in the final government of

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. He was suspended from the NDP caucus on December 15, 2016 due to sexual harassment allegations, and was removed from caucus on January 31, 2017. He did not run in the 2019 provincial election.

Personal life

Saran was born in the

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region of

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before moving to Canada in 1970.

References

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