Hasnat Khan, East London: Bangladeshi, pioneer of Bengali women’s awakening, community activist, political Dr. Bablin Molllik Babli has created history by being elected Lord Mayor of Cardiff City Council, the capital of Wales.
On 25 May 2023, Thursday, for the first time, of Bangladeshi origin. Dr Bablin Molllik Babli officially took office as the 118th The Right Honorable Lord Mayor of Cardiff City Council.
The Lord Mayor acts as the chief ambassador of the city’s civic affairs and as the chairperson of full council meetings. Newly elected Lord Mayor Councilor Bablin Molllik Babli is a councilor for Cyncoed and Lakeside. She was first elected to the council in 2017 and re-elected in 2022 and became Lord Mayor of Cardiff in 2023.
Dr. Bablin Molllik Babli moved to the UK with his parents as a child. She has since grown in Cardiff, Wales. Babli, the youngest of three children in a family of loving parents, completed a BSc degree in Biochemistry from Cardiff University and later a PhD in iBiology. Born in Kacuha village of Moulivibazar’s Sadar Upazila and raised in UK’s Roath, Babli attended schools in Penylan and Cyncoed before studying at Cardiff University. She now lives in Pentwyn with her husband and two daughters. Her Father Md. Firuz is a well-known figure in the political arena of Bangladesh.
Bablin played a crucial role to set up a school “Shikor (Roots) ” for the Bangladeshi community in Cardiff.
Bablin Molllik said: she is proud and happy to be elected Lord Mayor of Cardiff as a Bangladeshi for the first time. She requested everyone’s cooperation in fulfilling his duties. She urged the new generation to come forward in mainstream politics. Bablin Molllik added that I am the 16th female Lord Mayor, the first Bengali female and the first Muslim Lord Mayor of Cardiff. Cardiff has so much to offer, and I look forward to the busy schedule ahead of me.
