Some Interesting Outcomes Of The Recent UK General Election

The recent UK election has certain outcomes that might be interesting for the Indian mass. They are as follows –

1.) Keith Vaz and Valerie Vaz of the Labour Party have become the first brother-sister duo to jointly enter the House of Commons since 1950s. Their ancestral root lies in Goa.
2.) Indian origin Priti Patel has become the first Conservative Party woman of Indian origin to be elected to the UK Parliament.
3.) Priti Patel and Valeri Vaz have also become the first women of Indian origin to enter UK’s directly elected national legislature.
4.) Indian origin Marsha Singh has again won from the Bradford West constituency, an area often referred to as “Little Pakistan” as the majority of the local population is of Pakistani descent. In fact Marsha Singh has been winning this constituency since 1992. It is notable that his opponents have always fielded Pakistani origin candidates against him. And yet he has managed to retain his constituency which is, I repeat, dominated by Pakistani origins.

Congrats guys! You have really made us, the citizens of your ancestral country, proud. We wish you all a rewarding political career in the UK.


A Pakistani success

Shabana Mahmood has become the first woman of Pakistani origin to enter the UK Parliament.

Congrats sister! May you achieve the zenith of success in your chosen vocation, and make your ancestral country proud of you.


A tight slap for the anti-immigration hawks

The anti-immigration, far-right British National Party has failed to win a single seat, despite the fact that they fielded 300 candidates. The Asians owe a huge thanks to the forward thinking people of the UK, who rejected downright the flawed jingoism that British National Party was trying to sell.



News Courtesy: The Times of India, New Delhi, 8th May 2010.