Rasheda Begum Hira

Rasheda Begum Hira is the member of parliament for reserved Women's Seat-3 in the 13th Parliament. She has entered Parliament on the nomination of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). She is training affairs secretary of the BNP central committee. In Parliament she is a member of the Standing Committee on the Ministry of Women and Children Affairs.

Rasheda Begum Hira was born on 29 August 1957. She is the daughter of the late Solaiman Tapadar and the late Anwara Begum. She obtained a master's degree from the University of Chittagong in 1981 and an MPhil from the University of Rajshahi in 1990. She is a social worker by profession.

While at university she joined Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal politics in 1979. In 2009 she became a BNP member of parliament for a reserved women's seat. Former MP Rasheda Hira is one of the 36 people the BNP nominated for the reserved women's seats in the 13th Parliament. Through the votes of the members of parliament she again became a member of parliament, for reserved Women's Seat-3.

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