Jaya Sengupta (born 21 September 1943) is a

Bangladesh Awami League Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 165 million people in an area of . Bangladesh is among the mos ...

politician, doctor, and Member of Parliament of Bangladesh. Her husband was

Suranjit Sengupta Suranjit Sengupta (5 May 1945 – 5 February 2017) was a Bangladesh Awami League politician. He resigned in 2012 as the first Railway Minister of Bangladesh. He was the member of parliament from Sunamganj-2 constituency in the Jatiya Sangsad an ...

, a senior leader of Bangladesh Awami League and former Minister of Bangladesh Railway.

Career

Sengupta was married to veteran Bangladesh Awami League leader Suranjit Sengupta. She was a senior official in the non-governmental organisation

Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee BRAC is an international development organisation based in Bangladesh. In order to receive foreign donations, BRAC was subsequently registered under the NGO Affairs Bureau of the Government of Bangladesh. BRAC is the largest non-governmenta ...

(BRAC). Her husband was a member of Bangladesh Awami League Advisory Council. Sengupta was elected to parliament from

Sunamganj-2 Sunamganj-2 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2017 by Joya Sengupta of the Awami League. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Derai and Sullah upazilas. History The constituenc ...

constituency in

Sunamganj District Sunamganj ( bn, সুনামগঞ্জ) is a district located in north-eastern Bangladesh within the Sylhet Division. History In the ancient period, Sunamganj was part of the Laur Kingdom. After the conquest of Sylhet (Kingdom of Gauiurh) ...

. She was elected in a by-election after the death of her husband, Suranjit Sengupta. She defeated her nearest rival Mahbub Hossain Reju in the by election, she had more than double the vote her opponent had. Her husband was the Member of Parliament from Sunamganj-2. The seat was vacated after he died on 5 February 2017. Joya Sengupta was sworn into office on 16 April 2017 by the Speaker of the Parliament,

Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury (born 6 October 1966) is the current and the first female Speaker of the Jatiya Sangsad since April 2013. At 46 years of age, she became the youngest to assume the office. She was also the Chairperson of the Executive Co ...

, at the

Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban or National Parliament House, ( bn, জাতীয় সংসদ ভবন ''Jatiyô Sôngsôd Bhôbôn'') is the house of the Parliament of Bangladesh, located at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka. ...

. On 13 November 2017 she was nominated to the five-member panel of chairmen for the 18th session of Bangladesh

Jatiya Sangsad The Jatiya Sangsad ( bn, জাতীয় সংসদ, lit=National Parliament, translit=Jatiyô Sôngsôd), often referred to simply as the ''Sangsad'' or JS and also known as the House of the Nation, is the supreme legislative body of ...

(National Parliament). In absence of the speaker and deputy speaker, the panel is responsible for conducting the parliamentary session. Her constituency, Sunamganj, was flooded by flash floods and according to her affected nearly three hundred thousand people.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sengupta, Joya Living people 1943 births Awami League politicians 10th Jatiya Sangsad members 11th Jatiya Sangsad members Bangladeshi Hindus