{"id":563227,"date":"2025-11-11T08:52:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T08:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/563227\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T08:52:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T08:52:11","slug":"why-are-london-councillors-running-for-office-in-bangladesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/563227\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are London councillors running for office in Bangladesh?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He wrote to Tower Hamlets Council after it was revealed by The Standard that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/news\/politics\/london-councillors-campaign-elected-bangladesh-tower-hamlets-b1255393.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">at least two of the borough\u2019s elected representatives had launched campaigns<\/a> to stand in upcoming elections in Bangladesh. Residents in Mile End have called on Sabina Khan to resign after she announced she was standing for the Bangladesh National Party (BNP) in polls in February. Independent councillor Ohid Ahmed, who represents Lansbury ward in Poplar, is also campaigning to become a BNP candidate. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He wrote to Tower Hamlets Council after it was revealed by The Standard that at least two of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[21710,748,393,160778,4884,257,105379,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-563227","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-bangladesh","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-evening-standard-podcast","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-london","14":"tag-steve-reed","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115530219202519480","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}