page_title: Mohammad Asghar
hierarchical_section_title: Mohammad Asghar
caption_attribution_description: Mohammad Asghar
context_page_description: Mohammad Asghar known as Oscar, was a Welsh politician. He was a member of the Welsh Conservative Party, and of the Welsh Labour Party, and Plaid Cymru. He was elected to the Welsh Assembly in 2007 as a member of Plaid Cymru on the list for South Wales East.
  He is best known for being the first ethnic minority and Muslim Member of the Senedd, and being the first Assembly Member who was a member of a political party to defect to another party.
  Asghar died on 16 June 2020 after being rushed to hospital in Newport, Wales earlier in the day, aged 74.
context_section_description: Mohammad Asghar (30 September 1945 – 16 June 2020) known as Oscar, was a Welsh politician.  He was a member of the Welsh Conservative Party, and of the Welsh Labour Party, and Plaid Cymru. He was elected to the Welsh Assembly in 2007 as a member of Plaid Cymru on the list for South Wales East. 
  He is best known for being the first ethnic minority and Muslim Member of the Senedd, and being the first Assembly Member who was a member of a political party to defect to another party.
  Asghar died on 16 June 2020 after being rushed to hospital in Newport, Wales earlier in the day, aged 74.
caption: Mohammad Asghar,  June 2016
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