British Labour Party MP has roots in Kanpur and Gorakhpur | India News – Times of India

LUCKNOW: Today, Navendu Mishra34, may be celebrating his second term in the House of Commons, but his childhood was much more modest than you might expect: he played cricket and flew kites in the narrow lanes of Kanpur and Gorakhpur, along with his brothers, sisters and friends.
Mishra – elected to the UK House of Commons for the second time in a row Stockport constituency – was born in Kanpur in 1989. His mother’s ancestral home is in Gorakhpur, while his father hails from Kanpur’s Arya Nagar. His cousin Himanshu Mishra in Kanpur is a doctor at Shivrajpur community health centre and uncle Prabhat Ranjan Mishra was an engineer with a private firm in Mumbai.
While the news of labour partyWhen Keir Starmer ended the Conservatives’ 14-year rule on television, celebrations took place thousands of miles away in Kanpur and Gorakhpur, with Mishra’s friends and family celebrating the historic term by handing out sweets and crackers.
Speaking to reporters, Mishra’s maternal uncle Nilendar Pandey, a social worker and businessman in Lucknow, said, “The Mishra family migrated to the UK with his parents when he was just four years old.” His father was a marketing manager with Indian Petrochemicals Corporation Limited and moved to the UK after taking charge of a British company.
The British MP, who now lives in Brinnington and is one of the Labour Party’s 19 PIO MPs, was privately educated at Clifton College in Bristol and then studied at the University of Hull and Keele University.
Before entering politics, Mishra worked as a shop floor trade unionist in Stockport, later becoming an organiser for the Unsion trade union, organising care workers in precarious working conditions.
He was elected to the House of Commons in 2019 as a Labour candidate from Stockport, the seat previously held by Ann Coffey, who had left the Labour Party to join Change UK.
In 2021, Mishra moved an Early Day Motion in Parliament on the rise of anti-Indian racism, in which he said, “Discrimination and racism against anyone should never be tolerated. The government must take urgent action and update its Hate Crime Action Plan and come up with a proper strategy to tackle this form of racism.”
Pandey claimed that he shares a close bond with the British MP who called him soon after his victory in the polls.
“We share a great bond and Mishra has not forgotten his roots. He loves to visit India once in a year or two and never misses a chance to visit his relatives in Gorakhpur and Kanpur.” Mishra last visited his family home in Arya Nagar two years ago.
Pandey said Mishra is a vegetarian and loves home-cooked food that is common in eastern Uttar Pradesh.
Talking about the British MP’s childhood, Pandey said he loved flying kites and playing cricket in the streets with other children, including his two sons and daughter.
During a recent visit to India, Mishra led a delegation that met Gujarat Home Minister Bhupendra Patel and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar in New Delhi.
Pandey said that he has invited his cousin to visit India soon and has already planned a grand welcome for him.