{"id":33922,"date":"2017-06-09T06:20:54","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T06:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=33922"},"modified":"2017-06-09T06:21:37","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T06:21:37","slug":"uk-election-2017-tulip-rushanara-rupa-re-elected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=33922","title":{"rendered":"UK election 2017: Tulip, Rushanara, Rupa re-elected"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BangladeshiMPsThe British MPs of Bangladeshi origin retain their seats in the mother of parliaments<\/h2>\n
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Bangladeshi-origin Labour Party candidates Tulip Siddiq, Rushanara Ali and Rupa Haq have been re-elected from their respective constituencies.<\/p>\n

Tulip, the granddaughter of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, retained her Hampstead and Kilburn seat with a 26.6% majority in the 2017 polls.<\/p>\n

Rushanara Ali has won from Bethnal Green and Bow with 42,969 votes. The turnout for Bethnal Green and Bow was 69.84%.<\/p>\n

Rupa Huq has been re-elected as MP for the Ealing Central & Acton seat bagging 13,807 more votes than her Conservative rival Joy Morrissey.<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Theresa May had unexpectedly called the snap election seven weeks ago, even though no vote was due until 2020.<\/p>\n

The Conservatives leader sought to a stronger mandate to conduct Brexit talks but instead weakened her party\u2019s grip on power through the election.<\/p>\n

Latest BBC forecast says the Conservatives have failed to win an overall majority, and that the UK is now set for a hung parliament.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The British MPs of Bangladeshi origin retain their seats in the mother of parliaments Bangladeshi-origin Labour Party candidates Tulip Siddiq, Rushanara Ali and Rupa Haq have been re-elected from their respective constituencies. Tulip, the granddaughter of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, retained her Hampstead and Kilburn seat with a 26.6% majority in the 2017 polls. Rushanara […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":33923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\n