Mst. Nusrat Tabassum Joty

Mst. Nusrat Tabassum Joty is the member of parliament (MP) for reserved Women's Seat-50 in the 13th Parliament. She entered Parliament from the National Citizen Party (NCP), as a nominee of the 11-party electoral alliance led by Jamaat-e-Islami. She is a joint convener of the NCP and chief organiser of Jatiya Nari Shakti, the party's women's organisation. According to a Desh Rupantor report, having taken the oath at the age of 25, she is the youngest member of parliament.

Nusrat Tabassum was born on 18 March 2001 in Bagoan village, Mathurapur union, Daulatpur upazila, Kushtia district. Her father is Mohd. Abdul Halim and her mother is Mst. Johura Khatun. Both her parents are teachers.

She studied at Bagoan Government Primary School and Bagoan K.C.V.N. Secondary School, and completed her higher secondary education at Dr Fazlul Haque Girls' Degree College. In 2018 she was admitted to the Department of Political Science at the University of Dhaka. As a student she was active in debating, recitation and drama.

Her political activism began during the 2018 road safety movement. At the University of Dhaka she served as cultural secretary and as assistant general secretary of the university unit of Chhatra Odhikar Parishad, and later became one of the founding joint organisers of Gonotantrik Chhatra Shakti. In the July 2024 mass uprising, as a front-line coordinator of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement, she played an important role in organising female students. When the NCP was launched on 28 February 2025 she became a joint convener of the party, and she was given the post of chief organiser of Jatiya Nari Shakti, formed in March 2026. The international human rights organisation Front Line Defenders has recognised her as a human rights defender.

In April 2026 the 11-party electoral alliance nominated her for a reserved seat for women. As the only candidate for this seat, which is filled by a vote of members of parliament, she was declared elected unopposed, and in May 2026 she took the oath as a member of parliament.

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