Tasmia Prodhan

Tasmia Prodhan is the member of parliament (MP) for reserved Women's Seat-47 in the 13th Parliament. She is president of the Jatiya Ganatantrik Party (JAGPA) and entered Parliament as a nominee of the 11-party electoral alliance led by Jamaat-e-Islami. In Parliament she is a member of the Standing Committee on the Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs.

Barrister Tasmia Prodhan was born at her maternal grandparents' home in Bogura. Her paternal home is in Tokrabhasha village, Chilahati union, Debiganj upazila, Panchagarh district. She is the daughter of Shafiul Alam Prodhan, the founding president of JAGPA. Her mother, Rehana Prodhan, taught sociology at Lalmatia Mohila College and was JAGPA's second president. Gomir Uddin Prodhan, Speaker of the East Pakistan Provincial Assembly, was her paternal grandfather.

She passed her secondary examination from Mohammadpur Preparatory School and College in 1996 and her higher secondary examination from Viqarunnisa Noon School and College in 1998. In 2004 she completed a bachelor's degree in law at the University of London, obtained the Bar-at-Law from Lincoln's Inn, and returned home in 2007. After returning she worked at Dr Hamid and Associates and at Moudud Ahmed and Associates. In 2010 she began practising as a lawyer in the High Court Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh and founded her own law chamber, Tasmia Prodhan and Associates.

In politics she was vice-president of JAGPA. In October 2018 she was made acting president of the party, and on 9 November of the same year she was elected president at the party council. In 2018 she stood as a candidate for Panchagarh-2 in the election to the 11th Parliament.

In 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 elected unopposed, and the Election Commission published the gazette on 30 April 2026. In her personal life she is the mother of three daughters.

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