CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -In the 2017 general election, eight Hindu MPs (five Conservative and three Labour) were elected to Parliament.

Detailed explanation-2: -Dadabhai Naoroji, of Bombay Parsi origin, was the first Indian to be elected to Parliament in Britain. Naoroji travelled to Britain in 1885 as a business partner of Cama and Company. A member of several businesses, he became Professor of Gujarati at University College, London (1856–65).

Detailed explanation-3: -Peter McLagan (1823-1900), was a British Liberal Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Linlithgowshire, in the central belt of Scotland, for nearly 30 years, from 1865 to 1893. Notably, he is Scotland’s first and, to date, only black MP.