Shamsun Nahar is a politician of the
Bangladesh Awami League
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. She was elected to the
11th Jatiya Sangsad of
Bangladesh
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 ...
on a reserved seat category for women.
Biography
Shamsun Nahar was born at
Tangail district
Tangail ( bn, টাঙ্গাইল জেলা) formerly a small Mohokuma of Greater Mymensingh district is a district (''zila'') in the central region of Bangladesh. In 1969, Tangail district was created by Tangail Mohokuma from its 237 ...
.
Nahar is an
Awami League In Urdu language, Awami is the adjectival form for '' Awam'', the Urdu language word for common people.
The adjective appears in the following proper names:
*Awami Colony, a neighbourhood of Landhi Town in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
*Awami Front, wa ...
politician of Bangladesh. She was elected without competition among 49 others as
11th Jatiya Sangsad Member on the women's reserve seat-13. The speaker of the house
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 ...
took her oath as a member on 20 February 2019.
See also
*
List of Parliament members of 11th Jatiya Sangsad
References
External links
List of members of 10th Jatiya Sangsad (2014)–
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 ...
Living people
Awami League politicians
People from Gazipur District
Politicians from Dhaka Division
11th Jatiya Sangsad members
Women members of the Jatiya Sangsad
21st-century Bangladeshi women politicians
1957 births
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