Uma Kumaran

Uma Kumaran
Occupation Labour activist; PPC
Home town Harrow, London, England
Website
www.umakumaran.com//

Uma Kumaran is a British Labour politician.[1] Uma was selected as Labour candidate for the Harrow East constituency in November 2013.[2]

She was educated at Newton Farm Primary School, Bentleywood High School and St Dominic's Sixth Form College, all in Harrow.[3] She completed her BA Politics and MSc Public Policy at Queen Mary University, during which time she wrote for the International Tamil Newspaper Orupaper. She then worked for the NHS before taking an internship as a caseworker for a Labour MP.[4] She is a volunteer presenter and producer at Northwick Park Hospital radio.[5]

Her parents moved to Harrow to escape the civil war in Sri Lanka where her grandfather was a civil servant and trade unionist.[6]

In September 2014 it was reported that she called upon minorities and voters from migrant backgrounds to vote ‘no’ in the Scottish referendum.

She was one of 106 candidates in ‘battleground seats’ who accepted a £1,000 donation from former Prime Minister Tony Blair[7] and one of 30 who were given £20,000 by Lord Oakeshott.[8]

References

  1. ↑ Uma, Kumaran. "Candidate for Harrow East". http://www.labour.org.uk''. Labour Party. Retrieved 12 December 2014.
  2. ↑ "Uma Kumaran selected as Labour's Harrow East candidate". Harrow Times. 18 November 2013. Retrieved 14 September 2014.
  3. ↑ "About Uma". Retrieved 21 March 2015.
  4. ↑ "'We are a success story of multicultural Britain': Labour select Uma Kumaran as Harrow East 2015 candidate". getWest London. 18 November 2013. Retrieved 15 September 2014.
  5. ↑ "Labour's Harrow East candidate selected". Harrow Times. 20 November 2013. Retrieved 15 December 2014.
  6. ↑ "A Daughter Of Sri Lankan Tamil To Contest For Labour Party In Harrow East". Colombo Telegraph. 18 October 2013. Retrieved 14 September 2014.
  7. ↑ "Harrow East Labour candidate Uma Kumaran accepts £1,000 donation from former Prime Minister Tony Blair". This is local London. 10 March 2015. Retrieved 21 March 2015.
  8. ↑ "Lord Oakeshott gives Miliband a boost". Financial Times. 21 January 2015. Retrieved 21 March 2015.