Mohammad Asghar

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.Labour given a bloody nose icWales, 4 May 2007 

He is best known for being the first ethnic minority and Muslim Member of the Senedd,First ethnic minority AM elected BBC News, 4 May 2007 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.

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