When the results of the British parliamentary elections poured in through the early hours of Friday, one household in Neendoor panchayat in Kerala’s Kottayam district waited nervously. And then, a phone call arrived from UK bearing the good news that Sojan Joseph, a member of the family who had migrated to UK from Kerala in 2001, had been elected to …
As the Labour Party registers a landslide victory in the U.K. general elections, Onamthuruth — a quaint village nestled in the backwater landscape of Kottayam — has erupted in celebrations. This joyous occasion is in honour of Sojan Joseph, a 49-year-old man from the village, who has been elected to the British Parliament from Ashford, one of the constituencies in …
In the early hours of Friday, a family in Kerala’s Kottayam district waited in anticipation as the counting of votes polled in the British general election began. Sojan Joseph, a member of the family who migrated to the UK in 2001, was among the 410 lawmakers of the Labour Party, which has been out of power for 14 years, elected …
