LONDON: The first turbaned MP in UK’s House of Commons, Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi has been made Parliamentary Private Secretary by Labour Party chief Jeremy Corbyn.

Honoured to have been asked by @jeremycorbyn to become his Parliamentary Private Secretary. As PPS for the Leader of the Opposition, while it’s a great opportunity for me to learn, I will do my utmost to serve him, our @UKLabour Party and our country in this important role. — Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi MP (@TanDhesi) January 7, 2020

Appointed Corbyn’s key aide Dhesi shared this news on his twitter handle. He said: “.”

Last September, the Sikh lawmaker hit the headlines when he made a fiery speech attacking Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

Labour MP Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi slammed Boris and asked him to apologize for comparing Muslim women who wear face-covering veils to “letterboxes.”

Dhesi, whose family hails from Raipur village in Punjab’s Jalandhar, is the UK Labour Party MP from Slough in south-east England.

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