Mohinder Saran is a politician in

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

Legislative Assembly of Manitoba The Legislative Assembly of Manitoba (french: Assemblée législative du Manitoba) is the deliberative assembly of the Manitoba Legislature in the Canadian province of Manitoba. Fifty-seven members are elected to this assembly at provincial gen ...

from 2007 until 2019. He was first elected in the 2007 provincial election. Saran was re-elected as a member of the New Democratic Party in two subsequent elections and served as Minister of Housing and Community Development from 2015 to 2016 in the final government of

Greg Selinger Gregory Francis Selinger (born February 16, 1951) is a Canadian former politician who served as the 21st premier of Manitoba from 2009 until 2016, leading an NDP government. From 1999 to 2009 he was the Minister of Finance in the government of ...

. He was suspended from the NDP caucus on 31 January 2017 due to sexual harassment allegations. 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.

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