Rushanara Ali's triumph
Rushanara Ali takes back the Labour seat to become MP for Bethnal Green and Bow in what is called an "historical moment" for East End. She made history on 7th April when she was the first Bengalee to make it to British parliament. Not only that, for the first time a Muslim woman has been elected to the House of Commons, setting a new history for the ethnic minorities in Britain. And it marked the second triumph for Labour in Tower Hamlets after Jim Fitzpatrick won the seat for Poplar and Limehouse. In a passionate speech delivered to a crowded count room, she said, she was proud of Bangladesh and England where she was brought up and educated. She added: "It is a victory that has not been won by me but many thousands who chose hope over fear and unity over division. You decided it was time to pay your last respects to Respect. You said goodbye to George Galloway, but let me say one thing that I would want to welcome back many of his former supporters." Rushanara Ali was born in Bangladesh in 1975. With her family, Rushanara moved to the East End of London in the United Kingdom at the age of 7, where she attended Mulberry School and Tower Hamlets College. Growing up in Tower Hamlets, she studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics at the University of Oxford. From Bangladesh, we congratulate Rushanara Ali.
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