Musammat Shammi Akther

Musammat Shammi Akther is the member of parliament for reserved Women's Seat-22 in the 13th Parliament. She has entered Parliament for the second time on the nomination of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). She is assistant local government affairs secretary of the BNP central executive committee and a member of the party's media cell.

Shammi Akther was born on 2 November 1973 in Chunarughat, Habiganj district. Her father is freedom fighter commander Sirajul Islam. She is a former student of the University of Dhaka. She is a social worker by profession.

She has served as joint secretary and as acting convener of the Habiganj district BNP. In the 9th Parliament, from 2009 to 2014, she was a BNP-nominated member of parliament for women's seat 38, and during that time she was a member of the Library Committee of Parliament.

Her name was on the BNP's announced list of 36 for the reserved women's seats in the 13th Parliament as a former member of parliament. She became the member of parliament for reserved Women's Seat-22 through the votes of the members of parliament.

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