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LORD Sheikh, the Conservative Peer, who has been a Member of the House of Lords since 2006, will make a presentation on the first four UK Indian Members of Parliament on Monday (November 24).

Organised and held at the Nehru Centre in London, the presentation acknowledges the four men who were Members of the House of Commons. Dadabhai Naoroji was elected as a Liberal in 1892 and was the first Indian to become an MP.

Sir Mancherjee Bhownagree sat for the Conservative Party between 1895 and 1906. And Shapurji Saklatvala was a Labour MP between 1922 and 1923 and a Communist MP from 1924 to 1929.

The fourth Parliamentarian was Lord Sinha of Raipur who was raised to the Peerage in 1919. He was the first Indian to be appointed as a Minister in a British Government.

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