Labour Party introduces bus for UK General Election campaign

Senior leaders of the UK Labour Party have introduced a BAME (Black Asian Minority Ethnics) Campaign Bus to promote candidates for the parliamentary election due in May this year.

UK Correspondentbdnews24.com
Published : 25 March 2015, 08:25 AM
Updated : 25 March 2015, 08:25 AM

The campaign rally got under way from the party’s central office on Tuesday with the specialised ‘BAME Bus’.

Around 45 BAME members, including seven of Bangladesh origin, are taking part in the general election on behalf of the Labour Party. 

Among the Bangladesh-origin candidates, Tulip Siddiq, the granddaughter of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and niece of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, would contest from the Hampstead and Kilburn constituency.

Other contenders are Rushanara Ali, Dr Rupa Huq, Anwar Babul Miah, Merina Ahmed, Sumon Haque, and Akhlakul Islam.

Keith Vaz, Chairman of Labour Party’s Ethnic Minority Taskforce said his party had given nominations to the highest number of ethnic candidates.

At a programme launching the BAME Bus on Tuesday, Vaz expressed the hope that at least three out of seven candidates would win.

Candidate of Bethnal Green and Bow and the current MP Rushanara Ali and candidate of Ealing and Acton Rupa Huq, were present, among others, at the programme.

Rushanara Ali said, “Labour Party’s policies are for the general population. If the party wins, NHS would be secured, tuitions would be reduced, tax would be lowered, and new housing would be arranged.”

At present, 15 Labour Party MPs belong to the BAME.

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