Fahima Nasrin

Fahima Nasrin is the member of parliament (MP) for reserved Women's Seat-29 in the 13th Parliament. Nominated by the BNP (Bangladesh Nationalist Party), she is the party's assistant international affairs secretary and a member of its central executive committee. In Parliament she is a member of the Standing Committee on the Ministry of Women and Children Affairs.

Also known as Fahima Nasrin Munni, she was born on 25 December 1963. Her father is the late Abul Hashem Mia and her mother is the late Rabeya Khatun. She is the wife of Ali Askar Qureshi of Deosar village, Rampal union, Munshiganj Sadar upazila.

She is a lawyer of the Supreme Court by profession. She served as a deputy attorney general during the BNP government. She was elected senior vice-president of the Supreme Court Bar Association. She is also secretary of the Bangladesh National Women Lawyers' Association, vice-president of the Bangladesh Law Association and a life member of the Dhaka University Alumni Association.

Fahima Nasrin was one of the 36 people whose names the BNP announced on 20 April 2026 for the reserved seats for women. As the only candidate for this seat, which is filled by a vote of members of parliament, she was elected unopposed, and the Election Commission published the gazette on 30 April 2026. According to a report in The Daily Star, although her political area is Munshiganj-3, the party has given her organisational responsibility for the Jhenaidah-3 and Jhenaidah-4 constituencies.

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