Rumeen Farhana

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Rumeen Farhana
রুমিন ফারহানা
Farhana in 2018
Member of Parliament (Bangladesh) for Women Seat
In office
28 May 2019[1] – 11 December 2022
Preceded byKhorshed Ara Haque
Succeeded byAfroza Haque Rina
ConstituencyReserved Seat 50
Personal details
Born (1981-08-19) 19 August 1981 (age 42)
Bijoynagar, Brahmanbaria, Bangladesh
Political partyBangladesh Nationalist Party
Parents
Alma materUniversity of London

Rumeen Farhana (born 19 August 1981)[3] is a Bangladeshi politician, lawyer and a former Leader of the Opposition and Member of Parliament .[4][5][6][7][8][9] She resigned from her latest position on 11 December 2022.[10] She is inclumbed International Affairs Secretary of Bangladesh Nationalist Party.

Early life[edit]

Farhana was born in Islampur in Bijoynagar Upazila of Brahmanbaria District. Her father, Oli Ahad is a Bangladeshi politician. After completing secondary school from Holy Cross School and Higher Secondary from Viqarunnisa Noon School and College, she completed her graduation in Law from University of London. Later she obtained Bar-at-Law from Lincoln's Inn of the United Kingdom.[11]

Career[edit]

Farhana is the central international affairs secretary of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP).[12] As a barrister, she worked in the legal profession of the High Court of Bangladesh. In the Eleventh Jatiya Sangsad election, she represented the BNP[13] as the only female member of parliament of BNP.[14][15][16][17] Due to widespread irregularities in the 2018 Bangladeshi elections,[18][19] Rumeen was one of only seven members of parliament from BNP, which was the main opposition party of Bangladesh until 2014, and one of two major political parties in the democratic era of Bangladesh from 1991 to 2014,[20][21] until persecution of opposition leaders[22] and incarceration of the former Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia[23] seriously debilitated the party.

Farhana is a member of the Dhaka Lawyers Association.[24] She is also known as a Bangladeshi writer and journalist, law and politics.

In 2019, Farhana sought allotment of a 10 katha plot in Dhaka's Purbachal from the government. Any member of the parliament can apply for such an allotment, however her application was leaked from the ministry, which Rumeen speculated was deliberately done by the ministry because of her position as a member of the opposition party.[25]

Bibliography[edit]

  • Amader Rojanamacha[26]

External links[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ বিনা প্রতিদ্বন্দ্বিতায় নির্বাচিত বিএনপির রুমিন ফারহানা. banglanews24.com (in Bengali). Retrieved 10 June 2019.
  2. ^ রুমিনের প্লট ও ডিসির খাস কামরা (in Bengali). Deutsche Welle. Retrieved 26 August 2019.
  3. ^ "Dhaka Bar Association". dhakabarassociation.com. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
  4. ^ "BNP's Rumeen takes oath". Dhaka Tribune. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
  5. ^ "BNP's Rumeen takes oath as MP". New Age. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
  6. ^ "List of 11th Parliament Members (Bangla)". parliament.gov.bd. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
  7. ^ "BNP's Rumeen Farhana takes oath, demands reelection". The Daily Star. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
  8. ^ "Rumeen Farhana unofficially elected: EC secretariat". Daily Sun. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
  9. ^ প্রথম দিনেই সংসদে উত্তাপ ছড়ালেন ব্যারিস্টার রুমিন ফারহানা. The Daily Naya Diganta (in Bengali). Retrieved 12 June 2019.
  10. ^ "Gazette declares 6 seats of BNP MPs vacant". The Daily Star. 11 December 2022. Retrieved 22 December 2022.
  11. ^ বিএনপির রাজনীতিতে রুমিন ফারহানার উত্থান কীভাবে? Rumin Farhana: How did he rise in BNP politics?. BBC News বাংলা (in Bengali). 13 October 2021. Retrieved 15 October 2021.
  12. ^ "Rumeen gets BNP's nomination for reserved seats". Samakal. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
  13. ^ "BNP MP-elect Rumeen to be sworn-in Sunday". Dhaka Tribune. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
  14. ^ "BNP names Barrister Rumeen Farhana for woman's parliamentary seat". bdnews24.com. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
  15. ^ "BNP names Rumeen Farhana for woman's parliamentary seat". Kaler Kantho. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
  16. ^ রুমিন ফারহানার মনোনয়ন বৈধ. Ajker Patrika (in Bengali). Retrieved 10 June 2019.
  17. ^ "Khaleda eligible for getting bail, BNP MP tells JS". The Daily Star. Retrieved 12 June 2019.
  18. ^ Ganguly, Sumit. "The World Should Be Watching Bangladesh's Election Debacle". Foreign Policy. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
  19. ^ Rabbee, Shafquat. "A deeper look at the Bangladesh election". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
  20. ^ Maniruzzaman, Talukder (1992). "The Fall of the Military Dictator: 1991 Elections and the Prospect of Civilian Rule in Bangladesh". Pacific Affairs. 65 (2): 203–224. doi:10.2307/2760169. ISSN 0030-851X. JSTOR 2760169.
  21. ^ Chowdhury, Syed Tashfin. "Violent Bangladesh poll 'not credible'". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
  22. ^ "Govt takes hardline". The Daily Star. 8 January 2014. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
  23. ^ "Bangladesh Opposition Leader Zia in Prison a Year". Human Rights Watch. 8 February 2019. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
  24. ^ ব্যারিস্টার রুমিন ফারহানা. Kaler Kantho (in Bengali). Retrieved 10 June 2019.
  25. ^ "Why only me? BNP MP Rumeen asks as her land application goes viral". bdnews24.com. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
  26. ^ আমাদের রোজনামচা (হার্ডকভার). rokomari.com (in Bengali). Retrieved 10 June 2019.
  27. ^ "Rumeen Farhana". facebook.com. Retrieved 10 December 2022.


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