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Friday, June 26, 2009

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Subject: Declaration of Independence by Ziz
 
 
 

Proclamation of Independence of Bangladesh:

 

Dear Readers. May I draw your kind attention to the following facts for your

kind thoughtfulness to end of this heated discussion  about  the declaration of

Independence by Late  President Ziaur Rahman.

 

I think, this controversial issue does not call for any debate any more as this is beyond

all argument. I feel ashamed when our so-called highly educated person like

Barrister Moudud Ahmed comes up with the sense of bargain regarding this kind of

delicate and clearly logical issue. Mr. Moudud said Ziaur Rahman declared the independence

at his own ( Shaupronodita haya) , nobody asked him to do it or he did not read it

on behalf of Sk. Mujibur Rahman, though it  is quite documentarily evident,  Zia read it only

onbehalf of Sk. Mujibur Rahman, the founder of this country and it is clearly understood

Mr. Moudoud  is uttering such kind of evil word only for  his own political gain.

 

Now my question is,  to our politicians, educated people of this  country who disagree with this

eternal issue  ; 

 

1)   Who can proclaim the Independence of a Country (not that any body can proclaim, if he or she wish to do it). At that time had Ziaur Rahman  that kind of capacity & position ? Can he declare the independence at his capacity  ?  If not, under what capacity he showed that audacity? Who gave him that power to do so.  As Mr. Moudud  said, Zia did it at his own (Shapronodita haya), I think, if he did so, he had done a great mistake & played a serious game with the innocent lives of the  people of this country and for that blunder, the people of this country  could bring Zia  behind the bar and of course he should pay for this mistake. Besides, like this,  many more questions may come forward in the light of law. So, Moudud  & alike should answer all these  question. I don't know whether they have any answer.

 

2) Secondly, what Political science says regarding the proclamation, what is the precondition to proclaim an independence?  Who can proclaim? Under what capacity one can declare such kind of historical issue.

 

If we find answer to all these question, the only answer is, no other than only  Bangabandhu

Sk. Mujiur Rahaman was the only personality, fittest person under any capacity  at that time  to proclaim the Independence of Bangladesh. From any individual point of view one can disagree with this  universal truth but it does't matter to the  truth, Truth shall prevail for ever.

 

So, I would urge to the all perceptive people of this country, not to go for any unnecessary

fight  regarding this sacred issue & accept the reality which will sustain  eternally in the history of Bangladesh. 

 

 

God bless us all

 

Zayeed Abdullah

Chittagong

 

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Re: [chottala.com] Can be not analyzed the situation that are now BAL MPs the followers the priciple of BNP & is now their leader & political (Guru) Boss Deshnetry Madam Zia?



BAL administration is making black money into white & is saying that BNP has done. Now BAL MPs are saying against the System of CTG Administration because Mdam Zia in 1996 was against the system of CTG administration

 

Can be not analyzed the situation that are now BAL MPs the followers the priciple of BNP  & is now their leader & political (Guru) Boss Deshnetry Madam Zia?

Is it not the true situation in Bangladesh?

To create differences between BAL & BNP Administration to establish social justice & lawful administration in Bangladesh BAL Administration should not allow making Black money into White.

BAL administration should need to learn that by heading the Clock time ahead Electricity crisis will not be solved.

For solving electricity crisis needs

a) Efficient work planer

b) Active Administration

c) Skilled electric work men for doing regular proper maintenance work to keep constant & continuous electricity production &

d) Also needs to establish new electric plant.

On doing proper maintenance by skilled man power can increase the productive capacity of the electrical equipments which can help to give more electricity production & with more electrical production electrical section can be a profitable organization.

By selling more electricity will get more profit will get more electric bill & more electric vat & this profit bill & vat money can be used for extension the old electric plant or to establish new electric plant for getting more electric production.

The duty is of Jonnetry Sheik Hasina as a Daughter of Mr. Sheik Mujib the Founder of Bangladesh as a  Prime Minister of Bangladesh  as a mandated  leader of Bangladesh with  2/3rd over public majority not follow the path of Deshnetry Madam Zia but to create differences between BAL & BNP Administration for taking proper legal action against the corruption activities & to create skilled & expert man power by providing practical & theoretical training in electrical subject for maintenance & production work to keeping the electrical constant maintenance work & constant production of electricity efficiently & to kick out the wroth less inefficient & insincere people from the Electrical section.

Electricity factory is a more profitable Industry. By utilizing skilled & efficient man power for doing in time proper maintenance work the electrical equipments can be made more productive & effective for longer time utilization & can produce more electricity


 



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Re: [chottala.com] RE: Thank you for your editorial on Daily noyadiganta



Mahbubul Alam

Mahbubul Alam, who was seventy-three in 1971 thought it was the opportunity of a lifetime to participate in the nation's struggle for independence. Alam was a professional soldier in the First World War, later joining the British Army (39 Bangali Paltan) and going to Mesopotamia (Iraq) where the British Army was fighting to regain the territories lost to the Turks at the Battle of Kuttul Amara. Bangali Paltan was the same regiment which our national poet Kazi Nazrul Islam also joined, though he did not have to go beyond Karachi. He was a family friend of Mahbubul Alam and had close ties with his younger brother, Didarul Alam. When Kazi Nazrul Islam visited Chittagong in 1929, he spent a night with the Alam family at Fatehabad, a small village in Hathazari. Later, Alam narrated his experience as a young soldier, who had seen action in a far away place in his remarkable book Paltan Jiboner Smriti (Memories of the Paltan Life). writes Professor Abdul Mannan, a former Vice-chancellor of Chittagong University

Please read about Mr. Mahbubul Alam at Banglapedia
 
 
in this connection.:
Alam, Mahbub-ul (1898-1981) fiction writer and journalist, was born on 1 May 1898 at his maternal uncle's residence in Fatepur village in chittagong district. His father, Nasiruddin, was a moulvi of the same village.
 

Mahbub-ul Alam passed the Entrance Examination in 1916 from Fateyabad M E School and then studied at Chittagong College. In 1917, during the First World War, he joined a Bengali platoon and was sent to Mesopotamia. In 1919, at the end of the war, he returned home and, in 1920, became Sub-Registrar. He was subsequently promoted to District Sub-Registrar, District Registrar, and Inspector of Registration.

After retiring in 1954, he started publishing the weekly Jamana (1954) from Chittagong. His first book, Paltan Jibaner Smriti, published in 1940, was an autobiography describing his life as a soldier. He also wrote two other memoirs: Burmar Hangama (1940) and Momener Jabanbandi (1946). His short stories, which have literary merit, are included in Tajia (1946), and Pancha Anna (1953). His one novel is Mafizan (1946). Among his humorous writings are Gofsandesh (1953), Indonesia (1959), Turkey (1960), and Saudi Arabia (1960). He also wrote a history of Chittagong titled Chattagramer Itihas (3 vols, 1947-1950), and a history of freedom struggles in Bengal, Bangalir Muktiyuddher Itibrtta (4 vols).

Mahbub-ul Alam received several awards, including Bangla Academy Award (1965), Pride of Performance (1967) and Ekushey Padak (1978). He died in Chittagong on 7 August 1981. [Bimal Guha]

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On 6/26/09, <> wrote:


          Thank you for your kind letter and for addressing me as a "young man". In fact, I am 72 years old, still in workable health and regulalrly writing columns in newspapers. My name is Moyeenul Alam, to dispel your confusion.
           I am one of six unworthy sons of late Mahbubul Alam who wrote and published in 1974 the first book about history of Bangladesh liberation " Bangalir mukti juddher etibritto". handed over the book to Sheikh Mujib who appreciated my father's work of writing the book at his age of 76. My father Mahbubul Alam was one of the most respected writers in Pakistan and in Bangladesh. He was awarded President's Pride of Performance Medal for Literature in 1965 in Pakistan. In Bangladesh he was awarded Ekushey Padak for Literature. His most famous books are "Momenayr Jabanbondi" (which is read in B.A. Bengali Honours classes in universities), and "Paltan Jibanayr Smriti" which is the first book written in Bengali language on military experiences of a Bengali soldier. Mahbubul Alam fought under British Indian Army in Iraq for three years from 1915-1918 in the first World War. Mahbubul Alam died in Chittagong in 1981 at the age of 83.
           I began journalism in Chittagong in 1956. From 1959 I was the Resident Representative of Daily Ittefaq in Chittagong for 36 years until I migrated to Canada in 1995. Sheikh Mujib knew me well as a journalist and gave me the privilege to meet him in private whenever I wanted even during his most busy schedules.
           I hope your curiosity will be satisfied. You might like to read my another write-up entitled "CEC tarotomiyoti bujhThank you again for writing me,
                                                                Yours sincerely
                                                                Moyeenul Alam  


Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 07:32:19 -0700
From: nil_sh1998@yahoo.com
Subject: Thank you for your editorial on Daily noyadiganta
To: moyeenulalam@hotmail.com
CC: amohsin@ips.com.sa

Hi young man,
 
First take my salam, I am Mohsin from Saudi Arabia, I just read your editorial, I don't know I how express my feeling. It is a very charming help full for today's discussion. You bring & focus some impotent information which is feel us true and describes the situation for that time. I understand now lot of thing when I read your editorial. I am thanks full for all the for your valuable write.
 
I am praying your long life to God.
 
Dear, a question for you, and hoping ans. Please reply me.
You mentioned that In 1974 the first book about history of Bangladesh liberation " Bangalir mukti juddher etibritto" write by Mahbubul Alam, you mentioned at the end that when you handover the book Mujib appreciate your father who was 76 yrs old. what's is your father name please ans. me and if any link for know about mahbubul alam please send me. I am confuse here who is writer and who is your respected father is both are same.
 
 
Thank your for your valuable editorial. Plase forgive me for wrong english
 
 
 
Mohsin
Saudi Arabia



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[chottala.com] RE: Thank you for your editorial on Daily noyadiganta



          Thank you for your kind letter and for addressing me as a "young man". In fact, I am 72 years old, still in workable health and regulalrly writing columns in newspapers. My name is Moyeenul Alam, to dispel your confusion.
           I am one of six unworthy sons of late Mahbubul Alam who wrote and published in 1974 the first book about history of Bangladesh liberation " Bangalir mukti juddher etibritto". handed over the book to Sheikh Mujib who appreciated my father's work of writing the book at his age of 76. My father Mahbubul Alam was one of the most respected writers in Pakistan and in Bangladesh. He was awarded President's Pride of Performance Medal for Literature in 1965 in Pakistan. In Bangladesh he was awarded Ekushey Padak for Literature. His most famous books are "Momenayr Jabanbondi" (which is read in B.A. Bengali Honours classes in universities), and "Paltan Jibanayr Smriti" which is the first book written in Bengali language on military experiences of a Bengali soldier. Mahbubul Alam fought under British Indian Army in Iraq for three years from 1915-1918 in the first World War. Mahbubul Alam died in Chittagong in 1981 at the age of 83.
           I began journalism in Chittagong in 1956. From 1959 I was the Resident Representative of Daily Ittefaq in Chittagong for 36 years until I migrated to Canada in 1995. Sheikh Mujib knew me well as a journalist and gave me the privilege to meet him in private whenever I wanted even during his most busy schedules.
           I hope your curiosity will be satisfied. You might like to read my another write-up entitled "CEC tarotomiyoti bujhThank you again for writing me,
                                                                Yours sincerely
                                                                Moyeenul Alam  

Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 07:32:19 -0700
From: nil_sh1998@yahoo.com
Subject: Thank you for your editorial on Daily noyadiganta
To: moyeenulalam@hotmail.com
CC: amohsin@ips.com.sa

Hi young man,
 
First take my salam, I am Mohsin from Saudi Arabia, I just read your editorial, I don't know I how express my feeling. It is a very charming help full for today's discussion. You bring & focus some impotent information which is feel us true and describes the situation for that time. I understand now lot of thing when I read your editorial. I am thanks full for all the for your valuable write.
 
I am praying your long life to God.
 
Dear, a question for you, and hoping ans. Please reply me.
You mentioned that In 1974 the first book about history of Bangladesh liberation " Bangalir mukti juddher etibritto" write by Mahbubul Alam, you mentioned at the end that when you handover the book Mujib appreciate your father who was 76 yrs old. what's is your father name please ans. me and if any link for know about mahbubul alam please send me. I am confuse here who is writer and who is your respected father is both are same.
 
 
Thank your for your valuable editorial. Plase forgive me for wrong english
 
 
 
Mohsin
Saudi Arabia



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[chottala.com] Shame on Baroness Paula Uddin!



Read an investigative piece by the Sunday Times, exposing grand corruption of Bangladesh-born British MP Baroness Paula Monzila Uddin. Our own MPs have been shaming the nation for so long, now we have another version of Bangladeshi corruption in foreign soil! Didn't she come recently in Dhaka and had an audience with our new PM? Here is the full story:

The deserted Kent flat that earned baroness £100,000

A 'main home' outside London meant Lady Uddin could claim £29,000 a year, but the neighbours tell Insight that nobody lived there

THE small two-bedroom apartment in a quiet corner of Maidstone had been a mystery to its neighbours for years.

As far as they could see, it had been vacant and unfurnished since the day it was bought. Nobody had ever attempted to let it. However, after darkness fell last Sunday night a BMW 4x4 entered the gated apartment block and parked outside the flat.

A neighbour saw four people, including two women in saris, apparently carrying something into the house. "They were there for about half an hour," said a postman who lives next door but one to the flat. "They did take in something: it was either a television or a computer screen." By the next morning thick curtains protected the two bedrooms that had been visible from the street, a light was on in the hallway and a striped mat had been placed outside the flat's front door.

"I thought, 'There's a mat. Someone must have moved in'," said Yvonne Adams, whose own front door is a few feet across the corridor. "No one's been living there."

What the neighbours did not know was that the property is owned by Baroness Uddin, 49, a Labour peer. She has designated the flat as her "main address" so she can claim almost £30,000 in accommodation expenses a year from the House of Lords while continuing to live in her London home.

The flurry of activity in the flat on Sunday night came after The Sunday Times had asked the baroness questions about her "main address" the previous day. Neighbours also report a brief visit by the same car the previous night.

Yesterday MPs and a peer called for a full investigation into the baroness's expenses claims. She has received more than £100,000 (this figure includes an estimate for last year) since buying the Maidstone flat. She also claimed a further £83,000 for the same allowance from 2001, four years before she bought the flat.

Despite repeated questions, she has declined to discuss whether she actually owned or rented a main home outside London during this period.

Angus Robertson, the SNP's leader in the Commons, said: "I will be writing to the House of Lords authorities and the police and asking them to investigate this report."

Lord Oakeshott, the Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman, said: "The system stinks. Peers should get a simple taxable daily rate instead of these allowances. An empty property can't be a peer's main residence. The Lords authorities must investigate."

Born in Bangladesh, Manzila Pola Uddin came to Britain as a teenager and went on to become a community worker and social services officer while pursuing a political career that saw her rise to be deputy leader of Tower Hamlets borough council in the early 1990s.

She was made a peer by Tony Blair in 1998 and took the title "Baroness Uddin of Bethnal Green in our London Borough of Tower Hamlets". Aged 38, she was the youngest woman in the Lords.

As a campaigner on women's and ethnic minority issues she has become part of the new Labour establishment, befriending Cherie Blair. Her Facebook friends include the cabinet ministers Harriet Harman, Hazel Blears and David Miliband and Alastair Campbell, the former spin doctor.

However, she has never forgotten her roots. Her Facebook entry lists London as her home town and she has continued to work and live there. She and her family have resided in the same three-bedroom house in Wapping since the early 1990s.

A page entitled "my back-yard" on her personal website says: "I have a great sense of belonging to the East End which has been my home for over 30 years . . . it is where my professional and political career has taken shape, where my children have grown up, and also where I served as a local councillor for eight years."

Yet she designated the family house in Tower Hamlets – where her children lived and went to school – as a "second home" and this allowed her to claim the cost of overnight accommodation in London.

The purpose of the allowance is explained in a House of Lords guidance note that says: "A member whose main residence is outside greater London and who maintains a residence in London for the purpose of attending sittings of the House may claim this allowance towards the cost of maintaining such a residence."

In the Commons a "main residence" is considered to be the home where an MP spends most nights, but in the Lords there is no fixed definition. Mary Morgan, director of public information at the Lords, says: "A member will know what his main residence is. It's where they live . . . For the purpose of claiming expenses, it's where they travel to and from. There is no official definition."

The Sunday Times began looking into Uddin's expenses claims as part of an inquiry into peers who clock in to the House of Lords chamber briefly so as to claim overnight allowances. We photographed her going into the Lords through the peers' entrance, saw her appear in the chamber for less than a minute and then leave the building. The whole visit took just three minutes.

In the latest published list (the year to March 2008) she claimed £29,600 from the Lords for overnight subsistence – one of the highest sums for any peer. She gave the location of her main residence as Kent.

This was curious because there appear to be no public documents linking the baroness to the county. The only reference is a speech to the Lords in 2006 which she began with the words "I am a resident of Maidstone borough council". She is listed on the electoral roll at the Wapping address from 1996 to the present.

She has been a director of seven companies in the past 10 years and each time has said she lives at her Wapping home. The Companies Act says directors must give their "usual" address.

Uddin has a brother, Rousseau Khan, who lives in Bromley, south London. Khan owns the house and a neighbour said Uddin did not live there.

When a reporter rang her London home, her husband Komar picked up the telephone. He appeared confused about his wife's "main residence" in Kent.

Reporter: "Have you lived there [the Tower Hamlets family home] for a long time?"

Husband: "Yeah, We came here in '93."

Reporter: "Ninety-three, I see. Am I also right in thinking you have a place down in Kent?"

Husband: "Sorry?" Reporter: "Do you have a place in Kent?"

Husband: "Kent?" Reporter: "Kent, as in the county Kent? No?"

Husband: "No."

Minutes later the reporter spoke to Uddin about her three-minute visit to the House of Lords that day. She said she had been working on Lords business outside the building and had gone to the chamber but left quickly after realising she had another meeting.

The reporter attempted to broach the subject of her overnight expenses claim but she put the phone down. That evening she instructed Carter-Ruck, the libel lawyers, to speak on her behalf.

At the same time a reporter went to her London home. It is a three-storey building in a block of about a dozen flats built by Spitalfields Housing Association. The association's housing stock is for people requiring affordable housing and the average rent for one of the association's three-bedroom houses is £500 a month. The baroness is claiming more than £2,000 a month for running and maintaining a house in London.

Neighbours confirmed that the baroness shares the home with Komar, two of her sons and a daughter. Komar was outside the house smoking a cigarette.

When asked where his home was, he said, "I live here", apparently surprised by the obvious question. When reminded about the home in Kent, he added: "I live in both places." Later Carter-Ruck said that he had initially answered "no" when asked on the telephone whether he had a property in Kent because it belonged to his wife.

Fozlu Miah, 28, lives next to the Uddins in the same building, having moved in with his parents in the early 1990s, about the same time as the baroness. "As far as I know she lives here," said Miah. "I see her most days through the window, coming in and going out. I sometimes talk to her . . . I call her auntie."

Rafique Uddin (no relation), another neighbour, has known the family for years: "We all moved in at the same time. I don't know anything about a house in Kent. I'm surprised to hear that because almost every day when I'm parking my car I can see their car. The mum [baroness] is going in and out. They are continuously living here as far as I know."

Her daughter Masuma Siddiqah, 17, is best friends with the baroness's daughter. She said: "[The baroness] is always there. I hear her beep her car every day when she gets home." Siddiqah added that Uddin's daughter had never told her anything about the family having a home in Kent.

In a statement last Saturday, Carter-Ruck confirmed the baroness owned a property in Maidstone which is registered as her main address with the House of Lords. The solicitors also offered to disclose the Kent address if The Sunday Times undertook not to publish details or approach members of the baroness's family at the address. We declined.

Where was it? Overlooking a nature reserve on the fringes of Maidstone's central shopping area lies a block of apartments built in 2005. Land registry searches confirmed that Uddin owns a street-level flat there.

She bought it for £155,000 in September 2005, nine months after peers' expenses claims for overnight subsistence were made public for the first time. There is a mortgage on it.

It has two small bedrooms on the roadside and a lounge incorporating a kitchen area at the back. It is part of a group of six apartments that all share the same main entrance.

The Sunday Times has interviewed residents from all five of the other flats and others living nearby. They all said they had never seen Uddin, who cuts a distinctive figure, at the property. The neighbours said the property had been left empty since it had been bought. Three remembered peering into the two bedroom windows at the front and noting the rooms were unfurnished.

The windows now have thick curtains drawn across them after last weekend's visit. The postman said some of the people who entered the flat on Sunday had arrived in a BMW four-wheel-drive. His description of the vehicle, including two letters from its registration plate, match Uddin's car.

He said: "Nobody has ever lived in there. If you'd have come down a week ago you could have peered in and said nobody lives there."

Adams has lived across the corridor from the baroness's flat for three years. "I can't emphasise enough how no one has lived there. I know that for a fact," she said.

"There was a time when they had a sheet or something at the window which had fallen down and the security light was coming on, just shining into a completely empty flat . . . No, there has never been a stick of furniture in there."

Matthew Hollis, whose flat is directly above the baroness's property, confirmed there had been no furniture in the bedrooms. When initially asked about the flat, he responded: "I don't think anyone does live there. I've never seen anyone in there . . ."

Stuart Brown and his girlfriend Gemma Fox lived directly below Uddin's flat for three years before leaving recently. He said: "We never had anyone living above."

The other ground-floor neighbour, who requested her name be withheld, said: "I thought it was empty, too. I posted a note through there about two months ago because my friend was interested in renting."

A woman in a house that looks directly onto the back of the flat said she often saw people on the balconies above and below the baroness's flat. "That sweater has been hanging over that middle flat balcony probably since the end of last summer," she said.

"Every few months some people would just visit, but you are talking 10 minutes max," Adams said.

On Friday evening the baroness issued a solicitors' statement saying: "I do not believe that I have done anything wrong or breached any House of Lords rules. Should the relevant House of Lords authorities wish to investigate the matter I will, of course, co-operate fully.

"The Wapping house is rented, while I own the property in Maidstone. The Maidstone property is furnished and I strongly deny that I have never lived there. Indeed I have stayed there regularly since buying it."

Yesterday evening a reporter spoke to Mark Ryan, a plumber who had entered the flat last weekend to fix the boiler. He described how the property was covered in dust and sparsely furnished.

"I've been in more flats than I care to remember, but this place looked like someone had left it ages ago," he said. "It was very dusty. There were odds and sods of furniture around. There was an old mattress on the floor of one bedroom. It wasn't made up. There was a fold-up clothes dryer in the other bedroom.

"It didn't look lived-in. It certainly didn't look like a family home.They told me they were just moving in."

Insight: Jonathan Calvert, Claire Newell, Kevin Dowling, Solvej Krause

BARONESS UDDIN

— Born Bangladesh 1959

— Arrives in east London 1973

— Begins working for Newham social services 1988

— Deputy leader of Tower Hamlets 1994-6

— Fails to become Labour parliamentary candidate for Bethnal Green 1997

— Made Labour life peer 1998

— Starts Jagonari Centre to train and educate Asian women 1999

— Meets Blair as part of delegation to tackle Islamic extremism 2005

— Made chairwoman of ethnic minority women's taskforce 2008

Main address

Maidstone

Two bedroom flat

Bought three years ago

Neighbours have never seen her there and say flat was "empty" and "unfurnished"

Not registered to vote

Second address

Wapping

Three bedroom house

Lived there for 15 years

Children went to school in the area

Neighbours see her regularly

Registered to vote at address

It's not good enough. Some of these people must be tried and imprisoned; gross, blatant fraud - this one committed by someone who has been handed political privileges apparently for the gift of being foreign and female. And apparently wholly useless to the good and benefit of the country.

Paul Carlin, Dromore, County Down

Lady Uddin the Labour peeress
Was a model of New Labour success
She claimed all that pay
For 3 minutes a day
A whopper from Wapping no less.

John Bettes, London, UK

If she's a social housing tenant and is not living there as her main residence (which is what she's claiming by giving Maidstone as her address) she is in breach of her tenancy agreement and Spitalfields HA should take action to evict her.

Someone should tell Ala Uddin -Spitalfields Vice-Chair

Source:

http://bdfact.blogspot.com/2009/05/shame-on-baroness-paula-uddin.html



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