4 Bangladeshi women who won the UK election
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4 Bangladeshi women who won the UK election, Photo: Collected
Among the candidates of Bangladeshi origin who participated in the UK elections, 4 women have been elected as Members of Parliament this time. The four members of the Labor Party are Rupa Haque, Tulip Siddique, Rushnara Ali and Afsana Begum.
According to the report, Rupa Haque won from Ealing Central and Acton seats, Tulip Siddiqi from Hampstead and Kilburn seats, Rushnara Ali from Bethnal Green and Stepnigreen seats, Afsana Begum from Poplar and LimeHouse seats. She was also a Member of Parliament earlier.
Rupa Haque has previously been elected Member of Parliament on Labor Party nomination in 2015, 2017 and 2019 elections.
On the other hand Tulip, the granddaughter of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, was also elected as a Member of Parliament for the fourth time.
Another winning British-Bangladeshi candidate of the Labor Party, Rushnara Ali, will represent the country in Parliament for the fifth time. Afsana Begum, another candidate of the Labor Party, has been elected as a Member of Parliament for the second time.
In this election, the Labor Party nominated a total of 8 British Bangladeshis. Except for these four, the rest could not win the election. Labor’s Noorul Haq Ali in Gordon and Bochan, Nazmul Hossain in Brigg and Immingham, Rumi Chowdhury in Witham and Rufia Ashraf in Northamptonshire south lost to rival Conservative candidates.
On the other hand, the two candidates of Bangladeshi origin who participated in the election for the Conservative Party in this election were defeated. They are Atiq Rahman who contested from Tottenham seat in London and Syed Saiduzzaman from Ilford South.
Apart from these two parties, a number of British-Bangladeshis also ran as candidates for the nominations of other political parties and as independent candidates. Among them, 6 people got nominations from the Workers Party of Britain. But none of them could win the election.
They are Ghulam Tipu from Ilford South, Prince Sadiq Chowdhury from Bedford, Mohammad Shaheed Hossain from Hackney South, Faisal Kabir from Ultrichham and Sale West, Mohammad Bilal from Manchester Rossalmo and Halima Khan defeated from Stratford and Bow.
Raj Farhad, the only British-Bangladeshi nominated by the Reform Party, also lost the Ilford South seat. Rabina Khan, nominated by the Liberal Democrats, also lost the election. She contested from Stratford & Bow.
Scottish Nationalist Party nominee Naz Anis Mia was also defeated. His constituency was Dunfermline and Dollar.
In this election, 3 candidates of Bangladeshi origin nominated by the Green Party have been defeated. They are Syed Siddiqui from Ilford South, Syed Shamsuzzaman Shams for Oldham West and Royton and Sharmin Rahman for Leicester South.
British- Bangladeshi candidate Mumtaz Khanum could not win the election despite being nominated by the Socialist Party.
In addition to party candidates, 11 British of Bangladeshi origin became independent candidates in this election. But none of them could win. The candidates are - Weich Islam, Ajmal Mashroor, Suman Ahmed, Samsuddin, Ehteshamul Haque, Omar Farooq, Nizam Ali, Nurjahan Begum, Habib Rahman, Abul Kalam Azad and Raja Mia.
