Historical facts
Apropos to the letter of May 21 "Historical facts" by Mr Satyaki Chanda of Kolkata, India. It may be correct that Lord SP Sinha was given a peerage and became Baron Sinha in the House of Lords as the first Bengali peer. He also mentioned Kumar Bhattacharya in 2004 but failed to mention Baroness Pola Manzil Uddin who became a Baroness in 1998 and thus became the first woman from Bangladesh to get the title. Recently, Rushanara Ali was directly elected to the House of Commons with a Labour Party ticket in the Bow and Bethnal Green constituency and became the first woman and Muslim to win a seat in the House of Commons.
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