Ujjal Dosanjh was the New Democratic Party Premier of British Columbia from July 2004 until February 2005, and currently serves as a Liberal frontbench MP in Ottawa.

Shortly after the election, Dosanjh resigned as leader and Joy MacPhail was appointed interim leader.

Ujjal Dosanjh was born in Dosanjh Kalan, Punjab, India, in 1947.

He was also endorsed by MPs Irwin Cotler, Ujjal Dosanjh, Lawrence MacAulay, Diane Marleau and Brian Murphy, as well as several Senators.

He was succeeded by Dan Miller, who served until Ujjal Dosanjh won the resulting leadership convention.

Under Dosanjh, she was the Deputy Premier and served as Minister of Labour and later, Minister of Education.

Despite being included in the leaders debate, along with Premier Dosanjh and Liberal Leader Gordon Campbell the unpopularity of the NDP government was so great that most conservative-minded voters chose to vote for the BC Liberals, rather than split the right-of-centre vote once again.

Both times, she was unsuccessful in running against Liberal Party of Canada candidate Ujjal Dosanjh.

He was the first premier of a Canadian province to be of non-European descent, since followed by Ujjal Dosanjh and his ( Joe's ) son Robert.

Clark was replaced by the well-respected Ujjal Dosanjh.

Dosanjh was not, however, able to restore the party's public image, and the NDP was soundly defeated by the Liberal Party, led by former Vancouver mayor Gordon Campbell.

Dosanjh had admitted that the NDP could not win the election a week before it was held, and resigned as the party leader.

He served in several cabinet posts under the New Democratic governments of Mike Harcourt, Glen Clark and Ujjal Dosanjh, but was forced to resign from cabinet several times.

She was included in the Televised leaders ' debate along with Liberal leader Gordon Campbell and Premier Ujjal Dosanjh.

He served as premier until Ujjal Dosanjh was elected party leader and thus premier by a formal party convention on February 24, 2000.

* Ujjal Dosanjh, former Premier of British Columbia

Dosanjh gained an early interest in politics from listening to debates between his father, a follower of Jawaharlal Nehru and the populist Indian National Congress, and his grandfather, a former Indian freedom fighter and socialist.

* Ujjal Dosanjh, former Premier of British Columbia and former federal Cabinet Minister.

Dan Miller, the longest-serving member of the legislature stepped-in as interim premier and party leader during an acrimonious leadership race between Dosanjh, maverick West Kootenay MLA Corky Evans and Wilson, who had been persuaded to fold his stalled PDA in 1998 and join Clark's cabinet.

When the leader of his party resigned in 1999, Dosanjh put himself forward as a candidate and won the leadership vote.

Joy MacPhail served as interim leader of the New Democratic Party of British Columbia from 2001 to 2003, following the party's defeat in the 2001 provincial election, in which Ujjal Dosanjh lost his seat.

In 2001, he organized a dinner for British Columbia Premier Ujjal Dosanjh to mark his selection as Canada's first provincial leader of South Asian background.

MacPhail became interim leader after Dosanjh lost his seat in the 2001 provincial election and resigned.

* February 24-Ujjal Dosanjh becomes premier of British Columbia, replacing Dan Miller

* June 5-Gordon Campbell becomes premier of British Columbia, replacing Ujjal Dosanjh

He served in several positions in the British Columbia NDP governments of the 1990s, including Minister of Small Business, Tourism and Culture from February 1998 to November 2000. under Glen Clark, and Minister of Environment, Lands and Parks under Ujjal Dosanjh from November 2000 to April 2001.

by Deputy Premier Dan Miller, briefly, until a leadership convention selected Ujjal Dosanjh.

After a change in leadership, the new Premier of BC, Ujjal Dosanjh, placed the ferries up for sale.

Born in a village in the Jalandhar district of Punjab, India, Dosanjh emigrated to the United Kingdom at the age of 17 before moving to Canada almost four years later.

The Gustafsen Lake siege, led by Dosanjh became the largest-scale police operation in BC history, in which armoured vehicles and anti-vehicle mines were deployed and thousands of rounds of ammunition were shot at protesters.

After several BC Liberals acted as go-betweens, Grewal met with Ujjal Dosanjh, Minister of Health, and Tim Murphy, the Chief of Staff in the Prime Minister's Office, on three occasions May 16 – 18.

Dosanjh waited as long as possible to call the next election, finally doing so in May 2001.

* Ujjal Dosanjh ( February 20, 2000 – June 16, 2001 )

As his marriage with Protima began to break down he famously started a relationship with Parveen Dosanjh.

Although low in the polls for much of his term in office, Harcourt and his newly-appointed Attorney-General Ujjal Dosanjh succeeded in regaining substantial public support by taking a hard line against a fringe aboriginal group's occupation of a farmer's field in the Cariboo region of the province.

By mid-1999, an obvious rift had appeared in the administration as Attorney-General Dosanjh and Finance Minister Joy MacPhail challenged Clark's legitimacy.

Despite clear favouritism from Clark, Wilson finished last with Dosanjh winning a majority of votes at the convention, despite Evans winning the support of over two thirds of the party's constituency associations.

Having bottomed out at 15 percent in the polls, the Dosanjh government attempted to capitalize on the new Premier's high personal approval rating with their remaining year in power.

Halfway through his mandate, Dosanjh seemed to lose interest in governing and left for a lengthy tour of his native Punjab.

Midway through the campaign, Dosanjh conceded defeat in a pre-recorded message and asked the electorate to give the NDP a chance as a strong opposition party.

They were also the only surviving members of the previous Cabinet ; even Dosanjh lost his seat.

Ujjal Dev Singh Dosanjh, (; born September 9, 1947 ) is a Sikh Canadian lawyer and politician.

As a member of the Official Opposition from January 2006 until 2011, Dosanjh variously has been the critic of National Defence, Public Safety, and Foreign Affairs, as well as sitting on Standing Committee on National Defence, the Committee on Public Safety and National Security, the Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development, and the Committee on the Canadian Mission in Afghanistan, and the Committee on Justice and Human Rights.

Dosanjh wanted to pursue an education in political science, but his father wanted him to be a doctor.

So in 1964, at the age of 17, Dosanjh left India for the United Kingdom where he could pursue his own interests.

A prominent moderate Sikh in Vancouver, Dosanjh spoke out against violence by Sikh extremists who advocated Khalistan independence from India.

Dosanjh, 37 at the time, suffered a broken hand and received 80 stitches in his head.

Dosanjh and his wife Raminder have three sons.