Nurun Nesa Siddiqua

Nurun Nesa Siddiqua is the member of parliament (MP) for reserved Women's Seat-37 in the 13th Parliament. Nominated by Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, she is secretary of the party's central women's wing and a member of its central working committee. In Parliament she is a member of the Standing Committee on the Ministry of Women and Children Affairs.

Known as Principal Nurun Nesa Siddiqua, the educationist was born in 1958 in Char Kakra village, Companiganj upazila, Noakhali district. Her father is Noman Siddiqui and her mother is Hasmatunnesa. She is the youngest of nine brothers and sisters. Her husband, Sheikh Mohammad Mohiuddin, is a retired professor of Tejgaon College.

She studied up to class eight at Peshkarhat High School. She later completed her secondary education at Azimpur Government Girls' School and College in Dhaka and her higher secondary education at Eden Mohila College, and then completed her bachelor's and master's degrees in Bangla. She is a principal by profession.

She is a founding member of Bangladesh Islami Chhatri Sangstha and for a long time served as the organisation's second central president. In 1990 she joined Jamaat's women's wing.

On 20 April 2026, when the 11-party electoral alliance led by Jamaat-e-Islami announced 13 names for the reserved seats for women, her name was at the top of the list. 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. She has expressed the hope of working in Parliament to protect the rights of women and children.

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