Selima Rahman is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) politician. She served as a State Minister at the Ministry of Cultural Affairs of the

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during 2001–2006.

Background

Rahman is the daughter of justice

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, poet

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, journalist and government minister

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, architect Sultan M. Khan, photographer Allen Khan and the publisher of ''

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'', Shahidullah Khan Badal.

Career

Rahman served as the joint secretary general and vice-chairman of BNP. Rahman was arrested several times during her political career — in April 2012 under section 54 of the Criminal Procedure Code, in December 2013, in January 2014 for the Ramna Police Station arson case, in August 2015 for assaulting police and in September 2016 for an arson attack on a bus.

References

Living people Bangladesh Nationalist Party politicians Women government ministers of Bangladesh 8th Jatiya Sangsad members Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) State Ministers of Cultural Affairs (Bangladesh) Women members of the Jatiya Sangsad 20th-century Bangladeshi women politicians 21st-century Bangladeshi women politicians {{BangladeshNationalistParty-politician-stub