Mohini Singh

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Kelowna’s Mohini Singh hopes to be BC United’s candidate for the 2024 provincial elections and share her plans for Kelowna-Lake Country-Coldstream.

Singh has been a city councillor for Kelowna since 2011 and is now hoping to move to provincial politics.

She says the move will allow her to make more of an impact in the community: “I have a powerful voice and I have the experience to make an impact, and I can do that at a higher level.”

Singh also worked as a television reporter in Vernon covering stories throughout the entire region. She has been working with and for the community fighting at the side of survivors of domestic abuse, working for a more tolerant community, and for literacy among other causes. Her active engagement in the community and her work and volunteer experience are the reasons she was selected as a recipient to the Order of British Columbia in 2008.

She now hopes to be chosen by BC United as their candidate for the newly named riding of Kelowna-Lake Country-Coldstream replacing the current MLA, Norm Letnick, who has announced he would not be running for re-election. Singh chose BC United because she says shares values of unity with the party.

“The party has a big tent that leaves room for many people and values to be united under one name,” she says.

If she is selected by the riding association to be their candidate her platform will be based on creating solutions for the housing crisis, the high criminality rates, the homelessness crisis, and putting the interests of farmers up front. She wishes to put in place long-term, sustainable solutions to address these issues in a holistic way because “the homelessness issue is caused by the drug crisis and the housing crisis, and both have to be taken into consideration if we are trying to address the problem.”

Mohini Singh has been working for and with the community for a long time and that is what she believes makes her stand out from the other politicians hoping to get BC United’s candidacy: “I have the experience it takes, I can use my voice, listen, and be available to the people of the community.”

The party hasn't yet set a date for the nomination but as many as a dozen candidates are expected to be in the running.

The NDP hasn't made any candidate nomination information available and does not yet have a candidate.

The elections will take place on or before Oct. 19, 2024.

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