Ansar Ahmed Ullah Tulip Siddiq the grand daughter of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, and Sheikh Rehana’s eldest daughter won Hampstead and Kilburn seat defending a majority of just 42 in the seat formerly held by the famous actress Glenda Jackson. She received 23,977 votes, 44%, beating her near rival Conservative Party’s Simon Marcus who got 22,839, 42% of the votes. Tulip Siddiq ...

Ansar Ahmed Ullah    Dr Rupa Huq has become the second Bengali to enter the Houses of Commons by winning  Ealing Central and Acton seat against present sitting MP Angie Bray of the ruling Conservative Party. Labour’s Rupa Huq fought a marginal seat ousting the Conservatives by just 274 votes. Rupa Huq received 22,002 votes and her rival Angie Bray got 21,728. The voting turnout ...

  The 37th Annual Altab Ali day took place this week beginning with a solemn and dignified wreath laying ceremony. It brought together veterans of the 1978 era and a number of current leaders and organisations from the wider anti racist movement. Below Rajonuddin Jalal, a former Tower Hamlets Council deputy Leader and prominent in that famous struggle highlights some ...

by Farooque Chowdhury :  THE wage ‘slaves’ were coerced or allured out of their villages with the power of starvation. ‘[B]etween the years 1921 and 1931 the number of industrial workers employed in establishments of more than 10 workers rose from 2.6 million to 3.5 million. In the intervening decade, and especially in the last two and a half years of the war ...

By A. Rahman :    Only a few weeks ago, Bangladesh celebrated Bengali New Year’s day (Bangla Noboborsho) with unprecedented razzmatazz – colourful festoons donned the apartments in high-rise buildings, rickshaws, and even lamp posts; women wearing bright yellow saris chanted Noboborsho-welcoming songs; girls with garlands in their hands walked the streets, as if to offer garlands to the exalted ...

Bangla Mirror Desk: In his first public speech since his removal, former Tower Hamlets Mayor Lutfur Rahman said that more than 37,000 voters gave him votes because of his successful contribution in community development. People have voted him because of his record-breaking achievement in Housing, education, regeneration and creating jobs. He also said that “I am, as you know, no longer Mayor,” Rahman ...

London’s East End is full of people with a wealth of experience and ideas to change both their lives and the world, and yet most of them feel – and are – locked out of politics.In Tower Hamlets we’ve gone through the years being told what to do by Westminster (with our elections overturned and Commissioners being installed to run parts of ...

Bangla Mirror Desk: Youth leader and social worker Abu Talha has submitted his candidacy as an independent candidate from Stepny ward which became vacant after a high court ruling. His nomination was endorsed by the team of former Mayor of Tower Hamlets Lutufr Rahman. Councillor Oliur Rahman and former Councillor of Stepny Alibor Chowdhury declared their support towards him. Abu ...

Bangla Mirror Desk: A list of “very, highly or extremely controversial” potential cuts to benefitshave been drawn up by civil servants in response to warnings that the nextgovernment would struggle to keep welfare spending below a legal cap ofabout £120bn a year.The cuts proposed by officials at the Department for Work and Pensionsinclude abolishing statutory maternity pay and barring under-25s ...

On a walkabout in the heart of her East London constituency barely three days before May 7 vote, Rushanara Ali confidence. A third of the roughly 80,000 electorate are fellow Bangladeshis. And anyone in the know of things feels she is all set to return to ‘the mother of parliament’ for another five years. Speaking in both English and Sylheti ...