20 Questions Round 433

[DreamTrawler]

Was this person elected to office in the country of his birth, and did this election take place before the outbreak of WW2 ?

No.

[DreamTrawler]

Born in what is currently Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Indonesia, Iraq, or Japan?

Yes.

[Jamiet99uk]

Was this person elected to office in the country of his birth, and did this election take place before the outbreak of WW2 ?

No.

So either

i) Elected in a different country.
ii) Elected after the start of WWII

or potentially both.

[Hominidae]

We have two questions to go, and we're not very close. There are an almost endless number of people this could be, although presumably only a few who are plausible 20 Questions targets.

Probably would be good to narrow down the birthplace and time period a bit. I have a hunch this is a pretty recent individual.

[Aristocrat]

Born in what is now India, Bangladesh, or Bhutan?

[Pinecone333]

Assuming it is someone from South Asia, who in the world is:

A: born in South Asia, but an officeholder somewhere else
B: NOT so important that he is head of state in that somewhere else
C: important enough to be well known enough to be a viable answer here?

I was thinking Jagmeet Singh, but turns out he was born in Canada.

[Aristocrat]

Assuming it is someone from South Asia, who in the world is:

A: born in South Asia, but an officeholder somewhere else
B: NOT so important that he is head of state in that somewhere else
C: important enough to be well known enough to be a viable answer here?

I was thinking Jagmeet Singh, but turns out he was born in Canada.

Depends on how QM interpreted things, but arguably someone born in, e.g., the Dutch East Indies in 1940 could be elected something in Indonesia and still satisfy the criteria (basically would apply to all but Bhutan or Japan).

[Jamiet99uk]

Assuming it is someone from South Asia, who in the world is:

A: born in South Asia, but an officeholder somewhere else
B: NOT so important that he is head of state in that somewhere else
C: important enough to be well known enough to be a viable answer here?

I was thinking Jagmeet Singh, but turns out he was born in Canada.

A is not quite right. He was born in South Asia and could have held office in a different South Asian country.

[Pinecone333]

Fair on both counts, but if we’re trying to find some semi-important figure from Indonesian or Bangladeshi history, I’m not going to be much help lol

[Hominidae]

Wait, why are we jumping to "he must have held office in a different country"? He could have easily just been elected after WWII.

[Jamiet99uk]

Wait, why are we jumping to "he must have held office in a different country"? He could have easily just been elected after WWII.

Oh you're right. It was the way Pinecone wrote it...

[Pinecone333]

Wait, why are we jumping to "he must have held office in a different country"? He could have easily just been elected after WWII.

You’re right, my bad.

[Pinecone333]

We also don’t know for certain yet that he was South Asian. But we do know:

A: Elected to political office, either after WWII or in a different country than he was born in or both.
B: Not a head of state
C: Still reasonably well known.

It occurs to me there are plenty of countries in the British Commonwealth where the Prime Minister is not technically the head of state. So don’t rule out ex-British Empire nations’ prime ministers.

[Jamiet99uk]

We also don’t know for certain yet that he was South Asian. But we do know:

A: Elected to political office, either after WWII or in a different country than he was born in or both.
B: Not a head of state
C: Still reasonably well known.

It occurs to me there are plenty of countries in the British Commonwealth where the Prime Minister is not technically the head of state. So don’t rule out ex-British Empire nations’ prime ministers.

The same is true, for example, in Japan. It could be a former Prime Minister of Japan.

[Spartaculous]

We also don’t know for certain yet that he was South Asian. But we do know:

A: Elected to political office, either after WWII or in a different country than he was born in or both.
B: Not a head of state
C: Still reasonably well known.

It occurs to me there are plenty of countries in the British Commonwealth where the Prime Minister is not technically the head of state. So don’t rule out ex-British Empire nations’ prime ministers.

The prime minister is generally the head of government of the country.

[Jamiet99uk]

We also don’t know for certain yet that he was South Asian. But we do know:

A: Elected to political office, either after WWII or in a different country than he was born in or both.
B: Not a head of state
C: Still reasonably well known.

It occurs to me there are plenty of countries in the British Commonwealth where the Prime Minister is not technically the head of state. So don’t rule out ex-British Empire nations’ prime ministers.

The prime minister is generally the head of government of the country.

Not in a Presidential system though.

[DreamTrawler]

Born in what is now India, Bangladesh, or Bhutan?

Yes.

[Hominidae]

It occurs to me there are plenty of countries in the British Commonwealth where the Prime Minister is not technically the head of state. So don’t rule out ex-British Empire nations’ prime ministers.

I said "head of state or head of government" for this reason.

We also don’t know for certain yet that he was South Asian. But we do know:

A: Elected to political office, either after WWII or in a different country than he was born in or both.
B: Not a head of state
C: Still reasonably well known.

It occurs to me there are plenty of countries in the British Commonwealth where the Prime Minister is not technically the head of state. So don’t rule out ex-British Empire nations’ prime ministers.

The prime minister is generally the head of government of the country.

Not in a Presidential system though.

Are there presidential systems that have a prime minister though? Obviously there are semi-presidential systems like France, but in those countries, the PM is considered the head of government. It could be, for example, a House Speaker of Indonesia.

[Pinecone333]

Okay, fair enough. So he IS from either India, Bangladesh, or Bhutan. Elected, but not the PM.

We need something to narrow this down.

[Pinecone333]

Since he was elected, it must be post-decolonization. What moderately important officeholder from India or Bangladeshi would be well known enough outside of South Asia to be an answer here?