Shamsunnahar Khwaja Ahsanullah

Shamsunnahar Khwaja Ahsanullah (born 21 September 1934) is a Bangladeshi politician from Bangladesh Nationalist Party, a former two-term Jatiya Sangsad member from the Women's Reserved Seats and a member of the Dhaka Nawab family.[4]

Shamsunnahar Khwaja Ahsanullah
শামসুন্নাহার খাজা আহসানউল্লাহ
Member of Parliament
Women's Seat-21[1]
In office
27 February 1991 – 15 February 1996
Succeeded bySagufta Yasmin Emily[2]
Member of Parliament
Women's Seat-17
In office
10 October 2001 – 29 October 2006
Preceded bySagufta Yasmin Emily
Succeeded byFarida Rahman[3]
Personal details
Born (1934-09-21) 21 September 1934
Narayanganj, Bengal Presidency, British India
NationalityBangladeshi
Political partyBangladesh Nationalist Party
SpouseNawabzada Khwaja Ahsanullah
Relatives
OccupationPolitician

Career

Shamsunnahar Khwaja Ahsanullah was selected to the parliament in 1991 as a candidate of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party.[5] She was re-elected in 1996, the 6th parliamentary election of Bangladesh.[6] The general elections were scrapped and another election was called over concerns of fairness in 1996.[7] She was elected to the reserved seats for women in parliament by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party on 5 September 2005.[8] She was an advisor to the Bangladesh Union Sadasya Sangstha.[9] In 2008, she along with 86 other former Bangladesh Nationalist Party leaders expressed their support for party General Secretary Khandaker Delwar Hossain and Chairperson Khaleda Zia during the Caretaker Government rule in Bangladesh.[10] Begum Ahsanullah was sent into exile when the military government came into power.[11]

Along with being a politician, Ahsanullah served as the president of the Salimullah Orphanage since her husband's death in 1978.[12] She resigned from her post as president in 2010.[13]

Personal life
Ahsanullah with her husband in the 1950s

Ahsanullah was married to Nawabzada Khwaja Ahsanullah (1915–1978).[14] She is the daughter-in-law of the Nawab of Dhaka, Sir Khwaja Salimullah.[15] She has one son; Khwaja Zaki Ahsanullah and two daughters; Fawzia Ahsanullah and Ayesha Ahsanullah.[16]

References
  1. "List of 5th Parliament Members". parliament.gov.bd. Retrieved 20 August 2018.
  2. "List of 7th Parliament Members". parliament.gov.bd. Retrieved 20 August 2018.
  3. "List of 9th Parliament Members". parliament.gov.bd. Retrieved 20 August 2018.
  4. "Khaleda urges party men to help improve law & order". The Daily Star. 23 January 2003. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  5. "List of 5th Parliament Members". parliament.gov.bd. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  6. "List of 6th Parliament Members". parliament.gov.bd. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  7. "Washington wants acceptable polls in Bangladesh". dhakatribune.com. Dhaka Tribune. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  8. "36 women lawmakers take oath". bdnews24.com. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  9. "ID card a must for free, fair election". archive.thedailystar.net. The Daily Star. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  10. "86 ex-BNP MPs back Delwar". The Daily Star. 8 June 2008. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  11. "2008 Parliamentary election and the in laws of the Nawab Family |". gupshup1.wordpress.com. Retrieved 20 August 2018.
  12. "smo". nawabbari.com. Retrieved 20 August 2018.
  13. "Interview with Nawab Khwaja Habibullah Askari Part 2". YouTube. Retrieved 20 August 2018.
  14. "The official web site of the Dhaka Nawab Family: PHOTO GALLERY". nawabbari.com. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  15. "Name street after Sir Salimullah". archive.thedailystar.net. The Daily Star. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  16. "Family Tree". gupshup1.tribalpages.com. Retrieved 20 August 2018.


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