From BBC News:
It is a job that, so far, no British Asian woman has done - but that looks set to change after the general election.
A record 22 Asian women are running to become Labour, Liberal Democrat and Conservative MPs in England and Scotland.
It has taken quite a while to get to this stage.
The first Asian male MP was elected in 1892, when Dadabhai Naoroji, an Indian, took the seat of Finsbury, central London, for the Liberals.
Almost 120 years later nine Asian male MPs have been elected, but still no Asian women. So, 118 years after the doors of the Palace of Westminster first opened to an Asian MP, Asian women could be following soon.
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