Rumeen Farhana (born 19 August 1981) is a Bangladeshi politician, lawyer and a former

Leader of the Opposition The Leader of the Opposition is a title traditionally held by the leader of the largest political party not in government, typical in countries utilizing the parliamentary system form of government. The leader of the opposition is typically se ...

and

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. She resigned from her latest position on 11 December 2022. She is inclumbed International Affairs Secretary of

Bangladesh Nationalist Party The Bangladesh Nationalist Party ( bn, বাংলাদেশ জাতীয়তাবাদী দল, Bangladesh Jātīyotābādī Dol; BNP) is a centre-right to right-wing nationalist, political party in Bangladesh and one of the maj ...

Early life

Farhana was born in Islampur in Bijoynagar Upazila of

Brahmanbaria District Brahmanbaria ( bn, ব্রাহ্মণবাড়িয়া, translit=Brahmôṇbaṛiya) is a district in eastern Bangladesh located in the Chittagong Division. Geographically, it is mostly farmland and is topographically part of the Ga ...

. Her father,

Oli Ahad Oli Ahad ( – 20 October 2012) was a Bangladeshi politician and language activist of the Bengali language movement, Language Movement. He was awarded Independence Day Award in 2004 by the Government of Bangladesh. Early life Ahad was born in t ...

is a Bangladeshi politician. After completing secondary school from Holy Cross School and Higher Secondary from

Viqarunnisa Noon School and College Viqarunnisa Noon School and College ( bn, ভিকারুননিসা নূন স্কুল এন্ড কলেজ), also known as VNSC, is an all-girls higher secondary school and college in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It has 25,000 students ...

, she completed her graduation in Law from

University of London The University of London (UoL; abbreviated as Lond or more rarely Londin in post-nominals) is a federal public research university located in London, England, United Kingdom. The university was established by royal charter in 1836 as a degre ...

. Later she obtained Bar-at-Law from Lincoln's Inn of the United Kingdom.

Career

Farhana is the central international affairs secretary of the

(BNP). As a barrister, she worked in the legal profession of the High Court of Bangladesh. In the Eleventh Jatiya Sangsad election, she represented the BNP as the only female member of parliament of BNP. Due to widespread irregularities in the 2018 Bangladeshi elections, Rumeen was one of only seven members of parliament from BNP, which was the main opposition party of Bangladesh until 2014, and one of two major political parties in the democratic era of Bangladesh from 1991 to 2014, until persecution of opposition leaders and incarceration of the former Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia seriously debilitated the party. Farhana is a member of the Dhaka Lawyers Association. She is also known as a Bangladeshi writer and journalist, law and politics. In 2019, Farhana sought allotment of a 10 katha plot in Dhaka's Purbachal from the government. Any member of the parliament can apply for such an allotment, however her application was leaked from the ministry, which Rumeen speculated was deliberately done by the ministry because of her position as a member of the opposition party.

Bibliography

* Amader Rojanamacha

External links

* Facebook

References

Living people 1981 births People from Brahmanbaria district Bangladesh Nationalist Party politicians 11th Jatiya Sangsad members Women members of the Jatiya Sangsad 21st-century Bangladeshi women politicians {{BangladeshNationalistParty-politician-stub