Tulip Saddiq MP
I have done posts in the past showing how international our elitist oligarchic political class are, strangely enough connected across countries as well as at home. Very little attention is ever drawn to this. Most of the time these connections are entirely missed.
However, events in Bangladesh have rather raised a British politician’s profile today.
Labour MP and Economic Secretary to the Treasury and City Minister, Tulip Siddiq has rather slid under the radar. She is though very well connected to events in the sub-continent through her family who have been active in Bengali Politics since the days of the Mughals.
Her aunt Sheikh Hasina was, until this morning, Banglasdesh’s Prime Minister until she was forced to resign and flee the country in a helicopter.
Tulip’s maternal grandfather was Sheikh Mujibur Rahman the founding father and the first President of Banglasdesh. Tulip’s mother’s elder sister is the said Sheikh Hasina who had been the Prime Minister of Bangladesh since 2009. In 1975, a faction of Bangladesh’s Army stormed Siddiq’s mother’s home in Bangladesh and assassinated Tulip’s grandfather Shekh Mujibur Rahman alongside his three sons and 16 other members of his family in a military coup. Siddiq’s mother and aunt only survived as they were visiting West Germany at the time.
The family are Bengali Muslim aristocracy being of the zemindari land owning class and originally of Iraqi Arab descent from the Mughal era.
Quite where ex-president aunty is headed is as yet unclear, but Tulip has a spare flat (which you might remember she forgot to declare and register for more than a year) so we shouldn’t have to worry old Aunty will be homeless.
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