PM at Tulip ceremony

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Published : 7 July 2013, 12:04 PM
Updated : 8 July 2013, 02:35 AM

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina attends the post-wedding reception of her niece Tulip Rizwana Siddiq, daughter of Sheikh Rehana, in London. on Sunday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has joined a get-together of family, friends and a host of UK luminaries to celebrate the marriage of her niece Tulip Siddiq with a British civil servant.
As the Sunday evening ceremony was on, with the guests posing for photo, our UK Correspondent Syed Nahas Pasha sent exclusive pictures and video of the bride and the groom dressed in traditional Bengali wedding attire and flanked by Hasina, Sheikh Rehana and their children.
The wedding reception was held at Impression Event venue at West Ham in East London. Hasina’s son Sajeeb Ahmed Wazed and his wife, Christine, flew in from the United States to attend the ceremony. Tulip’s brother Redwan Mujib Siddique Bobby, his wife and her younger sister were also there.

The other guests included MPs and former British ministers such as Keith Vaz, Frank Dobson, Jim Fitzpatrick, Stephen Timms, Lynne Brown, Jermey Corbyn and Emily Thornberry.

Many fellow councillors from Tulip’s borough Camden were also present, so were leaders of Bangaldeshi community and Awami League.

The BNP’s UK activists demonstrated outside the venue before Hasina arrived. Police deployed in large numbers kept them away.

Last month, Tulip, who turns 31 this September, had given just one name for her husband, Chris, who studied at the Cambridge University before joining the civil service.

She studied English literature for her Bachelor’s and Master’s degree at the University College of London. She did a second Master’s in Politics, Policy and Government before pursuing a career in British politics.