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Friday, August 22, 2025
Volume 16 . Issue 73
At the young of 22, Shail Kaushal has achieved a lot of firsts—he has not only become the first India-born to be elected in a local government election in Auckland (this happened last month), but has also become the first immigrant to be elected from Mt Roskill. Not to forget he is also one of the youngest elected members in this year’s elections.
In 2013, Shail had contested his first election as a teenaged candidate and this year, and after winning the polls he added the fifth seat first time for his team.
Shail is already well known as the youngest chairperson in the country heading a large electorate committee in Mt Roskill for the Labour party.
With his family roots in Punjab and Himachal in India, Shail is the son of Labour party representative and community leader Sunny Kaushal. At the age of 16, he was selected as the Youth Member of Parliament. At 19, he was the youngest candidate to contest the local government election from Mt Roskill and received the highest ever votes among the candidates born overseas. The following year, he was the campaign secretary for Phil Goff’s campaign for MP in the 2014 general election.
Shail became the talk of the country in 2015 when he was selected not only to represent New Zealand overseas but also elected to lead a multilateral and multinational delegation comprising countries like Australia and Korea as their leader at the Future Leaders from Asia-Pacific program in Taiwan.
In 2016, he was also the youngest member of Phil Goff’s winning mayoral campaign committee electing Phil Goff as the mayor of the super city with a landslide victory.
Shail holds two degrees from the University of Auckland, including honours in politics and international relations. He is undergoing further studies and will soon add two more qualifications to his resume, i.e. Masters in International Security and Post Graduation in Immigration Law.
Shail Kaushal believes New Zealand has given him plenty over the years, and now it’s time to give back.
At the young of 22, Shail Kaushal has achieved a lot of firsts—he has not only become the first India-born to be elected in a local government election in Auckland (this happened last month), but has also become the first immigrant to be elected from Mt Roskill. Not to forget he is also one of the...
At the young of 22, Shail Kaushal has achieved a lot of firsts—he has not only become the first India-born to be elected in a local government election in Auckland (this happened last month), but has also become the first immigrant to be elected from Mt Roskill. Not to forget he is also one of the youngest elected members in this year’s elections.
In 2013, Shail had contested his first election as a teenaged candidate and this year, and after winning the polls he added the fifth seat first time for his team.
Shail is already well known as the youngest chairperson in the country heading a large electorate committee in Mt Roskill for the Labour party.
With his family roots in Punjab and Himachal in India, Shail is the son of Labour party representative and community leader Sunny Kaushal. At the age of 16, he was selected as the Youth Member of Parliament. At 19, he was the youngest candidate to contest the local government election from Mt Roskill and received the highest ever votes among the candidates born overseas. The following year, he was the campaign secretary for Phil Goff’s campaign for MP in the 2014 general election.
Shail became the talk of the country in 2015 when he was selected not only to represent New Zealand overseas but also elected to lead a multilateral and multinational delegation comprising countries like Australia and Korea as their leader at the Future Leaders from Asia-Pacific program in Taiwan.
In 2016, he was also the youngest member of Phil Goff’s winning mayoral campaign committee electing Phil Goff as the mayor of the super city with a landslide victory.
Shail holds two degrees from the University of Auckland, including honours in politics and international relations. He is undergoing further studies and will soon add two more qualifications to his resume, i.e. Masters in International Security and Post Graduation in Immigration Law.
Shail Kaushal believes New Zealand has given him plenty over the years, and now it’s time to give back.
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