Awaiting the inauguration of a Bangladeshi face in the upcoming cabinet of Britain

May 24, 2024
  • All polls in Britain so far show the current opposition Labour Party leading the race for power in the upcoming elections.

In the upcoming parliamentary elections in Britain, the four parliamentarians of Bangladeshi origin elected to the current parliament are once again waiting for a certain victory. All polls in Britain so far show the current opposition Labour Party leading the race for power in the upcoming elections. 

If these four MPs can be re-elected from the seats occupied by the huge supporters of the Labour Party, and if the Labour Party comes to power in Britain, at least one of Bangladeshi origin can take a place in the British Cabinet for the first time. The names of four-time MP Roshanara Ali and three-time MP Tulip Siddiq are being discussed more within the Labour Party in the ministerial battle among the Bangladeshis. 

In East London's Bangladeshi-dominated Bethnal Green and Bow, Poplar and Limehouse seats, the Labour Party nominee is more certain to become an MP. Rushanara Ali has been elected in the last four elections to one of the most safe and secure seats in East London for Labour. 49-year-old Rushnara, who was born in Bhurki village of Bishwanath, Sylhet, is a Labour Party candidate for this seat. She came to London with his parents as a child. 

Apsana Begum won the Labour nomination and election battle in the face of the opposition of Bangladeshi descendants of the local Labour Party last time in the East London constituency.

In the last election, Apsana, the candidate of the Labour Party, was elected MP after defeating Conservative candidate Sheun Ock by about 29,000 votes. 34 years old, the energetic lady was born and raised in Shadwell, Tower Hamlets. Her father's house is in Jagannathpur, Sunamganj, Bangladesh. Apsana's father, Monir Uddin, was a councillor in Tower Hamlets. She is the shortlisted candidate on the Labour Party candidate list for the upcoming elections. 

Tulip Rezwana Siddiq, daughter of Bangabandhu's daughter Sheikh Rehana, is a three-term MP from London's Hampstead and Kilburn constituencies.  The 41-year-old Tulip is seen by political observers as one of the most promising politicians of the new generation within the Labour Party. In the 2015 election, Tulip won the Labour Party's non-safe seat for the first time in a hotly contested seat. Tulip, who has twice served in the shadow cabinet of the Labour Party, can get her place in the cabinet if she wins the upcoming elections and her own party, the Labour Party, comes to power. 

Dr. Rupa Huq won the Labour Party nomination for the third time and became MP in a row in the Ealing Central seat of London. 

The 52-year-old British Bangladeshi daughter taught sociology at Kingston University in London before entering politics. The columnist and writer was last working as a senior lecturer at the University of Kingston. 

Rupa Huq is the eldest of the three daughters of Mohammad Huq and Roshan Ara Huq, both from Bangladesh. Her parents came to Britain in 1970. Her father's house is in Kuthipara, Pabna City.  Rupa Haq is well-liked both inside and outside his constituency for his easy-going and modest demeanor.  This time, Rupa Haque is leading in the opinion polls as the candidate of the Labour Party.

Labour Party leader and London's Croydon Councillor Mohammad Islam said on Friday that the Labour Party is ahead in all the public opinion polls so far in the upcoming elections in Britain. British politicians of Indian and Pakistani descent have become ministers in Britain's cabinet, but no Bangladeshi has yet become a minister. About 1.5 million Bangladeshis living in Britain. He added, If the Labour Party forms the government and If the present four MPs of Bangladeshi origin from the Labour Party are re-elected, this time we are hopeful that this regret will come to an end.

Former Deputy Mayor of Tower Hamlets Council, Councillor Ohid Ahmed, said on Friday, I have been doing politics in Britain for almost four decades. Nearly thirty years ago, the Labour Party gave me an MP ticket.Calling on the Labour Party candidates to win, he said on Friday that if the Labour Party forms the cabinet, a British Bangladeshi politician will hopefully be represented in Britain's cabinet among the current fours.

Notably, the names of more two British Bangladeshi male politicians are on the list of Labour Party candidates from Westham Becton and Rochdale seats.