When Apollo Milton Obote’s political party, the Uganda People’s Congress (UPC) defeated the Democratic Party (DP) to win the biggest number of parliamentary seats in Uganda’s first post-independence general elections in 1962, what was left was UPC uniting with Kabaka Yekka (KY).

KY swept all the Parliamentary seats in Buganda and its union with UPC gave birth to Uganda’s first independence government. The union was the only way UPC and KY could keep DP, their common nemesis, out of power.

In 1963, the British expatriate whom the colonialists had left behind as the Speaker of Parliament, Sir John Bowes Griffin, left the country and Narendra was unanimously elected by fellow parliamentarians as the Speaker.

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• Narendra Patel; Ugandas first non-British speaker of Parliament