Rushanara Ali

Quick Facts

Full Name	Rushanara Ali
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Mar 14, 1975(1975-03-14)
Age	49
Birthplace	Bishwanath Upazila
Country	Bangladesh
Birth City	Sylhet
Horoscope	Pisces

Rushanara Ali Biography

Rushanara Ali is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on March 14, 1975 in Bishwanath Upazila, Sylhet, Bangladesh. Rushanara Ali MP (Bengali pronunciation: rushnaaraaa aalii; 14 March 1975) was a British Labour Party politician. He is also the Associate Director of The Young Foundation and has been the Member for Bethnal Green since 2010. Ali was previously Shadow Minister for International Development. She joined the Shadow Education team during the 2013 Labour reshuffle. To abstain from a House of Commons motion allowing military action in Iraq, Ali resigned as Labour’s frontbench member.

Ali was elected Governor of the Westminster Foundation for Democracy, a UK government-funded foundation.

In October 2013, Ali was appointed Shadow Minister for Education. On 26 September 2014, she resigned from the Labour frontbench Education team to abstain on the Coalition government’s House of Commons motion permitting military action against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in Iraq. In a letter to the leader of the party Ed Miliband, she wrote “I appreciate the sincerity of members of parliament from all sides of the House who today support military action against ISIL. I know that British Muslims stand united in the total condemnation of the murders that ISIL have committed. However, there is a genuine belief in Muslim and non-Muslim communities that military action will only create further bloodshed and further pain for the people of Iraq,” Ali also told Miliband that she remained totally committed to his leadership and was looking forward to his becoming the prime minister in next eight months’ time. In his return letter to Ali, Miliband praised her as ‘someone with great ability and talent’. Regretting her departure from the frontbench team, the Labour leader added that he accepted the resignation with due respect to her decision.

Ali retained her seat at the 2015 general election, doubling her majority to 24,317 and earning a 61% share of the vote. In June 2015, she was one of 36 Labour MPs to nominate Jeremy Corbyn as a candidate in the Labour leadership election.

The Guardian listed Ali as one of Britain’s most powerful Muslim women in March 2009.

Rushanara Ali Net Worth

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

From 2000 to 2001, Ali was involved in human rights issues at Foreign Office. From 1999 to 2002, Ali was a research fellow at Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR), where she focused on anti-discrimination. She worked as a community cohesion officer at the Communities Directorate, the Home Office. This unit was responsible for coordinating a program to mobilize national and local agencies following the 2001 riots in Burnley Bradford, Oldham and Oldham. It challenged central government to support these areas.

Ali was elected as the Labour Party’s potential Parliamentary candidate for Bethnal Green & Bow in April 2007. With a majority vote of 11,574, Ali was elected a Member to Parliament in May 2010. She is the first person of Bangladeshi descent to be elected to the House of Commons. Along with Shabana Mahmood, Yasmin Qureshi and Yasmin Qureshi she became the United Kingdom’s first female Muslim MPs.

Ali began her career as a research assistant to Michael Young, working on a project which paved the way for the establishment of Tower Hamlets Summer University, offering independent learning programmes for young people aged 11–25. She helped to develop “Language Line”, a national telephone interpreting service in over 100 languages. Between 1997–1999 she was parliamentary assistant to Oona King, MP for Bethnal Green and Bow.

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In March 2018, Ali received a suspicious package containing an anti-Islamic letter and sticky liquid. The substance was later found to be harmless. Similar packages were received by fellow Labour MPs Mohammad Yasin, Rupa Huq and Afzal Khan.

Facts & Trivia

Rushanara Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Bangladesh. Rushanara Ali celebrates birthday on March 14 of every year.

As of 2019, Ali is part of the Executive Committee of the British-American Project.