NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh announces he has become a father of a baby girl

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh has become a father for the first time, to a baby daughter.

Singh announced Thursday that he and his wife Gurkiran Kaur welcomed their child into the world on Monday.

“Our powerful little baby girl is basically my birthday present for life,” Singh wrote on Twitter.

“Momma bear and baby are healthy and our hearts are filled with gratitude.”

Singh celebrated his 43rd birthday the day before his daughter’s birth.

The NDP leader’s daughter will not be named immediately. In Sikh tradition, a newborn is named around two weeks after their birth in a ceremony called Naam Karan.