Future of the Community in the East End of London is not even mentioned. But then the UK Bangladeshis aren't recognised by a "Club" that has been doing brisk business for its Members based entirely on the struggle of the Community - 1

Future of the Community in the East End of London is not even mentioned. But then the UK Bangladeshis aren't recognised by a "Club" that has been doing brisk business for its Members based entirely on the struggle of the Community - 1

 

When the KHOODEELAAR! Campaign issued the first comprehensive legal action Notice against a Bangladesh “weekly” called Notun Din and a few others in 2006, it did so after thoroughly examining the evidence of the ABSENCE OF ALL reports of the Campaign in all the “Bengali weeklies”.

The Defence of the Community has NEVER been reported by the “Bengali Press”.

When they have done so they have done it in order to show their servility to the racists, like those who fronted the Tower Hamlets Council bureaucracy in January 2006.

From the SUNDAY TIMES’ magazine assault on the Seelottee-speaking people, - the overwhelming majority of Bangladeshis in the UK who pioneered the “OVERSEAS Bangladeshi contributions to the idea and then the state of Bangladesh”, the so-called “Bengali Press in London” has NOT existed.

More evidence  came of this last night at an event that was “celebrated” as being the completion of 20 years of a  Club, called  the “London Bangla Press Club”

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This © Muhammad Haque picture [above, taken on] [Sunday 30 June 2013] shows Lutfur Rahman looking positive as he hears a statement by an official of the "London Bangla Press Club" hoping that the Club would have its very own Building in the [near] future.

The event, held in the Mile End Road, near Whitechapel, was to mark the reported 20 years of the existence of the Club.

Presentations, including a short speech by Lutfur Rahman, gave the impression that it was a Club rather than an association of journalists, as journalism is normally understood.

In the only serious "historic" comment that was made by one of the stated founders of the Club, a reference to Altab Ali was inserted as a passing, casual event skipping all of the 19 years that followed and glueing the history to 1997 and the many "achievements".

The UK Bangladeshi community was not shown in any way as a Community other than as an attachment to certain individuals and their careers!

In fact the CLUB claimed the major credit for the fact that certain persons were now installed in the British Parliament and that Lutfur Rahman was “the executive mayor iN Tower Hamlets”.

Two of those, including Lutfur Rahman, actually acknowledged the Club’s Members’ role in getting them to be where they were now!

[To be continued]

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