And Husband-To-Be Punjabi Singer-Actor Parmish Verma Cheering For Her As They Await Marriage Following Election!

Indo-Canadian developer Sukh Grewal’s Guneet Grewal is running for the Trudeau Liberal candidate for the riding of Mission-Matsqui-Fraser Canyon while husband-to-be Punjabi singer-actor Parmish Verma is cheering her on as the couple await marriage following the September 20 election. Verma, a well known singer and actor who got his start directing Punjabi music videos, boasts six million followers on Instagram and whose music videos have been watched hundreds of millions of times on YouTube, announced Grewal’s nomination on social media last week.

By DESIBUZZCanada Staff

ABBOTSFORD – Indo-Canadian developer Sukh Grewal’s Guneet Grewal is running for the Trudeau Liberal candidate for the riding of Mission-Matsqui-Fraser Canyon while husband-to-be Punjabi singer-actor Parmish Verma is cheering her on as the couple await marriage following the September 20 election.

Verma, a well known singer and actor who got his start directing Punjabi music videos, boasts six million followers on Instagram and whose music videos have been watched hundreds of millions of times on YouTube, announced Grewal’s nomination on social media last week.

 “So proud of my better half!! Congratulations, Guneet, on winning the @liberal party nomination! I’m looking forward to you becoming the next Member of Parliament for Mission-Matsqui-Fraser-Canyon in #Canada. I’m with you all the way,” he wrote alongside a photo of the two of them.

Verma has starred in several movies, including the 2019 film Dil Diyan Gallan, which he also wrote and directed and was nominated for three awards — including best actor — at the Punjabi Film Awards.

Grewal holds law degrees from the University of Leicester and Queen Mary University in London. She is running as a first-time candidate, and according to her website “aims to joins the ranks of Liberal MPs like the Honourable Maryam Monsef, Catherine McKenna, and Terry Beech, who were all first elected under the age of 40,” reported Vancouver Sun

Grewal will run against Conservative party incumbent Brad Vis, who was first elected in 2019. The NPD candidate is Lynn Perrin, and Nicole Bellay is running for the Greens.

Mission-Matsqui-Fraser Canyon is a sprawling riding that includes Mission, parts of Abbotsford and Harrison Hot Springs, as well as Lytton and Lillooet.

The riding has flipped between Liberals and Conservatives in the past and is considered a toss-up by electoral polling and projections website 338 Canada. Vis won the riding back from the Liberals in 2019 with 42.4 percent of the vote. Liberals won the riding in 2015 with 37.2 percent versus 34.9 percent for the Conservatives.

The riding was home to 95,000 people and had a median household income of $72,000, according to the 2016 census.