Shamsunnahar Begum
শামছুন্নাহার বেগম
Government posts last checked: 24 October 2026, Cabinet
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Shamsunnahar Begum (Jamaat-e-Islami) is the MP for Women's Seat-43. This page gives her profile, earlier terms, parliamentary committees and contact details.
Shamsunnahar Begum is the member of parliament (MP) for reserved Women's Seat-43 in the 13th Parliament. Nominated by Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, she is secretary of the women's wing of the Chattogram North district Jamaat.
Shamsunnahar Begum was born on 22 June 1973. Her father is Jamal Ahmed and her mother is Sakina Khanam. She is a resident of Mirsharai upazila in Chattogram.
She is a teacher by profession. She has long been involved in education as a senior teacher in the school section of Rahimpur Ideal School and College in Hathazari.
Shamsunnahar Begum was one of the 13 people whose names the 11-party electoral alliance led by Jamaat-e-Islami 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.
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Terms in Parliament
Bangladesh Jamaat-e-IslamiBJEIAccording to the Parliament Secretariat, she has been elected an MP once. Parliament’s database holds the records of the 4th, 5th and 7th to 12th Parliaments; it has no lists for the 1st to 3rd and the 6th, so an earlier term in those, if any, does not appear here.
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