Tulip Siddique has resigned.
Tulip Siddique a member of parliament (MP) for the UK’s ruling Labour Party and the country’s minister for cities and anti-corruption has resigned. Tulip is the niece of ousted Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and daughter of Sheikh Rehana resigned on Tuesday on the pressure from corruption allegations.
Tulip confirmed her resignation in a post on her Verified X account today. She also attached her resignation letter to the post.
A coalition of anti-corruption charities the UK Anti-Corruption Alliance called on Tulip Siddique to resign from her role as a minister to tackle corruption in the UK’s financial markets.
Tulip Siddique has been named in a second corruption investigation. She is being investigated for allegedly acquiring land for her family during her aunt’s previous rule in Bangladesh.
Authorities in Dhaka said Siddique the Labour Party’s anti-corruption minister is among those under investigation in a land allocation scandal in the capital’s diplomatic zone.
Bangladesh’s Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has claimed that Tulip Siddiqui “used her influence and special powers” to pressure ousted former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to allocate land to her family members. Tulip has denied all the claims, but this has increased the pressure on her.
Her name has already come up in a separate ACC investigation into allegations of bias in a nuclear power plant deal with Russia in 2013. However, sources close to the minister described the allegations as “spread” by her aunt’s political rivals.
Tulip is accused of embezzling nearly $5 billion in infrastructure development funds in Bangladesh. The allegations against him have rocked British politics.
Earlier, in light of the allegations, opposition Conservative Party parliamentary leader Kim Badenoch also called on Prime Minister Keir Starmer to sack Tulip. Tulip Siddique, 42, MP for Hampstead and Highgate in England, has handed herself over to the Prime Minister’s standards adviser and insisted she had done nothing wrong. On Monday, Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s spokesman said the prime minister had “full confidence” in Tulip.
However, the UK Anti-Corruption Coalition said that Tulip Siddique’s role in the British government and the allegations against her clearly constitute a ‘conflict of interest’.
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