Member of the European Parliament for South East England
In office 10 June 1999 – 1 July 2019
Preceded by
Position established
Succeeded by
Belinda De Camborne Lucy
Member of Parliament for Brentford and Isleworth
In office 9 April 1992 – 8 April 1997
Preceded by
Barney Hayhoe
Succeeded by
Ann Keen
Personal details
Born
Niranjan Joseph De Silva Deva Aditya
(1948-05-11) 11 May 1948 (age 76) Colombo, Dominion of Ceylon
Citizenship
Sri Lanka and United Kingdom
Political party
Conservative
Other political affiliations
European Conservatives and Reformists
Spouse
Indra
Children
1
Residence
London
Website
www.nirjdeva.co.uk European Parliament
Thakur Artha Niranjan Joseph De Silva Deva Aditya, FRSA, DL (born 11 May 1948), known as Nirj Deva, is a British politician. A member of the Conservative Party, he served as a Member of the European Parliament for South East England from 1999 to 2019. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) in the British House of Commons from 1992 to 1997, for the seat of Brentford and Isleworth.
Deva was born in Sri Lanka into a politically active family and was raised in Britain. He was the fifth Asian-born person to be elected a Member of the House of Commons, and in 1999 became the second so-born to be elected as a Conservative to the European Parliament which operates via a party list system. In November 2011 Deva became the European Conservatives and Reformists Group's candidate for President of the European Parliament, following three UN-related roles, representing the European Union, in the 2005 to 2006 period.[1][2]
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% ± Conservative James Provan, Roy Perry, Daniel Hannan, James Elles, NirjDeva 661,932 (132,386.4) 44.4 N/A Labour Peter Skinner, Mark F. Watts 292,146...
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as "unprecedented". The Channel Tunnel reopened the following morning. NirjDeva, Member of the European Parliament for South East England, had called...
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2019) 24 April – Gangodawila Soma Thero, Buddhist monk (d. 2003) 11 May – NirjDeva, Sri Lankan-British politician 8 June – D. A. M. R. Samarasekara, admiral...
Waal Graeme Dell Dame Judi Dench John Denham John Denison Simon Denny NirjDeva Hilary Devey Hugh Welch Diamond Michael Dickson John Diefenbaker Rita...
Douglas French 1979–80 Richard Barber 1980–81 Richard Simmons 1981–82 NirjDeva 1982–83 Colin Coulson-Thomas 1983–84 David Shaw 1984–85 Michael Lingens...
who was unanimously nominated by the group. Diana Wallis (Liberal) and NirjDeva (Conservative) also announced candidacies. Meanwhile, Graham Watson, the...
(originally elected as UK Independence Party) Daniel Dalton – West Midlands NirjDeva – South East England John Flack – East of England Ashley Fox (Conservative...
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Parliament, with 387 votes in favour out of 670 cast. Other candidates were NirjDeva (142 votes) and Diana Wallis (141 votes). Together with EU Commission...
Nihal Gurusinghe – OBE professor, neurosurgeon Desmond Lorenz de Silva NirjDeva Jan Jananayagam Ranil Jayawardena Alexander Robert Johnston Kamal Chunchie...
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