The Yukon Liberals are announcing another high-profile candidate to run in this year’s territorial election.

Ramesh Ferris, a longtime Yukoner and polio survivor, is now pursuing a seat in the Yukon Legislative Assembly.

When he was just six months old in Coimbatore, India, Ferris contracted polio.

In 2008, Ferris launched his Cycle to Walk across Canada campaign – which saw him hand-cycle from Victoria to Cape Spear, NL and raise more than $300,000 toward polio eradication, education and rehabilitation.

Now a survivor of the disease, Ferris has travelled internationally to advocate for an eradication of the disease.

He has delivered his message to a host of notable figures such as Queen Elizabeth II, Tibetan leader the Dalai Lama, renowned scientist David Suzuki and education rights advocate Malala Yousafzai.

A press release indicates Ferris will declare which party under which he’s seeking a nomination at a press conference tomorrow morning, and identify the riding he’s interested in.

However, a source confirmed this morning that Ferris wants to run under the Yukon Liberal Party banner.

“The generosity of Yukon and its people has allowed me to walk. It is now time for me to give back and stand up for all Yukoners everywhere,” Ferris said in the release.

Last summer, former city councillor John Streicker announced his intent to run alongside former Yukon Party candidate Rod Taylor.

Streicker ran as a Green Party candidate in the 2011 federal election, garnering a notable 19 per cent of the territory’s vote.

Months before the territorial election in 2011, Taylor ran against Darrell Pasloski for the leadership of the Yukon Party, eventually losing to the current premier.

Later, a third politician entered the Liberal ring – Tamara Goeppel announced her intent to run with the Liberals in November 2015.

Previously, Goeppel had lobbied for a federal Liberal nomination in the fall of 2014.

Yukon Liberal Leader Sandy Silver has previously noted that candidates and their respective ridings will be determined after an open nomination at this month’s annual general meeting.

The Liberals’ only government in the Yukon was elected in the spring of 2000.

Then-premier Pat Duncan and her party lost power to Dennis Fentie’s Yukon Party in the election held in late 2002.