Pola Uddin, Baroness Uddin

Quick Facts

Full Name	Pola Uddin, Baroness Uddin
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Jul 17, 1959(1959-07-17)
Age	65
Birthplace	Rajshahi
Country	Bangladesh
Horoscope	Cancer

Pola Uddin, Baroness Uddin Biography

Pola Uddin, Baroness Uddin is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on July 17, 1959 in Rajshahi, Bangladesh. Manzila Pola Uddin, Baroness Uddin, (Bengali: মানযিলা পলা উদ্দিন ; Romanized: Manzila Pôla Uddin; born 17 July 1959) is a British life peer and community activist of Bangladeshi descent, being the first Muslim and second Asian woman to sit in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. In 2009 she was included on The Guardian’s Muslim Women Power List for Britain.

In 1997, she applied to be the Labour parliamentary candidate for the Bethnal Green and Bow constituency, but did not reach the shortlist. Appointed a Labour “working peer” by Tony Blair, she was raised to the peerage as Baroness Uddin, of Bethnal Green in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, for life by Letters patent in the afternoon of 18 July 1998, at the House of Lords. She was the youngest woman on the benches and the only Muslim and Asian woman to be appointed to the House of Lords. She was invited to the House of Lords for her contribution to the advancement of women and disability rights, swearing in by saying “Almighty Allah” as she took her seat in the parliament. Since entering the House of Lords she has supported a handful of initiatives.

Uddin claimed her main home had been outside London since 2001, earning an extra £83,000 as a result. Despite repeated questioning she has refused to state the location and details of her main home between 2001 and 2005 for which expenses were also claimed. In January 2010 The Times newspaper revealed the property she had claimed for during this period was owned and occupied by her brother and his family, with Uddin’s sister-in-law stating she couldn’t recollect the Peer ever living there. She also has one of the highest claims for overnight subsistence of any member of the Lords.

In 2005, she was selected by Tony Blair to be part of a delegation to tackle Islamic extremism. However, in August 2006, Uddin was a signatory to an open letter to Tony Blair criticising the UK’s foreign policy. It was an open letter criticising the government’s stance on the Middle East. It was signed by three Muslim MPs (which included Sadiq Khan and Mohammed Sarwar), three peers and 38 community groups. The letter was criticised by the then Foreign Office minister, Kim Howells who criticised Muslim leaders for condemning British foreign policy. In 2008, she was made the chairwoman of the ethnic minority women’s taskforce.

Further expenses claims by Uddin were later discovered when The Sunday Times revealed that she owns a mansion in Bangladesh. The mansion was described as made out of Italian marble with tiles, mosaics and with a balcony. The mansion was believed to have been built after Uddin became a peer in 1998, costing £140,000 which was organised by her husband Komar, located in Jawa Bazar in Chhatak; this is where many of her in-laws are originally from. However Uddin claims that the land was bought by her husband’s family, purchased by Kumar’s father in 1980.

Pola Uddin, Baroness Uddin Net Worth

Pola Uddin, Baroness Uddin is one of the richest Politician from Bangladesh. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Pola Uddin, Baroness Uddin 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Uddin started her professional career by creating and leading community working groups in the late 1970s. In 1980, she started working as a Youth and Community worker with the YWCA, and then a Liaison Officer for Tower Hamlets Social Services, and Manager of Tower Hamlets Women’s Health Project. She then began working for Newham social services in 1988. In 1990, Uddin was elected a Labour councillor in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, the first Bengali woman to hold such an office of a local authority in the United Kingdom, which she served for two years. She then became the Deputy Leader of Tower Hamlets council, from 1994 to 1996.

Uddin was born in Rajshahi, Rajshahi Division, East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). She moved with her parents to the United Kingdom in 1973, when she was 13 years of age, and she grew up in the East End of London. She attended the Plashet School in East Ham, and was educated at the University of North London, where she earned a degree in social work.

Uddin has been long campaigning for the increase of skills of Asian women living in Britain. She created the first purpose-built education and training centre for Asian women in the UK called the Jagonari Centre, located at Whitechapel, East London, in 1999. Uddin is a member of the EOP Implementation Committee, and a trustee of St Katherine’s and Shadwell Trust.

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In May 2009, an article by The Sunday Times Insight team alleged that Uddin submitted House of Lords Expenses for a flat in Maidstone, Kent as her main residence. The article alleged Uddin claimed £30,000 per annum of tax-free expenses since purchasing the flat in 2005, and since 2001 on an un-named residence outside London. The flat purchase was said to be connected with her to claim for second home allowance on her existing London property, a scheme that ostensibly exists to compensate politicians living outside London for the cost of accommodation close to Parliament. Residents living near the flat in Maidstone reportedly said they had not seen any occupiers in the flat since Uddin purchased it and that it had remained completely unfurnished until 2009, but Uddin claims: “The Maidstone property is furnished and I strongly deny that I have never lived there”. Uddin’s husband even denied having a property in Kent when questioned on the issue by the Times, and she appeared on the electoral roll at her London address from 1996 to date. Additionally her Facebook page states how she has lived in the East End of London for over 30 years.

Facts & Trivia

Pola Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Bangladesh. Pola Uddin, Baroness Uddin celebrates birthday on July 17 of every year.

On 21 October 2010 the House of Lords voted to accept the committee’s recommendations. However, in November 2011, it was revealed that no formal mechanism existed to prevent Baroness Uddin’s return to the House of Lords, even if she refused to repay the expenses that were fraudulently claimed, leading many members of her own party to call for her to resign rather than bring the House of Lords into further disrepute.