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JS Reserved Seats For Women

Bir Shreshtha families aspire to one seat

Abdullah Al Mahmud And Dwaipayan Barua, ctg
Efforts are underway to secure at least one reserved seat in parliament for women from female members of the freedom fighters who were awarded with the highest honour of Bir Shreshthas.
Sources said the reserved seat for a female member of such families will uphold the spirit of the liberation war and facilitate trial of the war criminals under the present government.
Mili Rahman, wife of Bir Shreshtha Motiur Rahman. Fatema Begum, daughter of Bir Shreshtha Ruhul Amin. Hasina Haq, Sufia Rahman and Rokia Jamal, three daughters of Bir Shreshtha Noor Mohammad, and Parvin Akter Mukti, daughter-in-law of Bir Shreshtha Mostafa Kamal, are the possible candidates for such nomination, the sources added.
Hoping a nomination for the seat, Fatema wrote a letter to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on January 20.
Fatema. also the president of Awami
Jubo League Sitakunda unit, is now work ing as an assistant teacher of Chittagong Cantonment Public School and College after obtaining her masters in political science from Chittagong University.
Different organisations including Bangladesh Muktijoddha Sangsad Chittagong District Headquarter unit. Muktijoddha Bir Shreshtha Smiriti Parishad, Chittagong Freedom Fighters' Welfare Association and Citizens' Rights Movement in Chittagong have expressed their support for Fatema.
Another sources said Mili in her bid for the seat met with the prime minister last week and the commerce minister on Wednesday.
“The commerce minister told us that the government is actively thinking of nominating at least one member from the families of Bir Shreshthas for the reserved seat for women." said Engineer Mominur Rahman, general secretary of Bir Shreshtha Motiur Rahman Foundation, and convener of Bir Shreshtha Hamidur Rahman Smiriti Sangrakkhan Committee.
“Mili also met with Post and Telecommunication Minister Rajiuddin Ahmed Raju yesterday, he added.
Talking to The Daily Star on Tuesday, Mukti said they (Mili and Fatema) are senior to me in all respects and as such they deserve the nomination.
Mukti, an employee of Khulna City Corporation, became a widow after her husband Mosharraf Hossain Bachchu, son of Bir Shreshtha Mostafa Kamal, died ofcancer in 1996.
Three daughters of Bir Shreshtha Nur Mohammad and female members of other Bir Shreshthas are also hoping for the nomination.
SM Golam Mostafa, son of Bir Shreshtha Nur Mohammad, said, “After the Awami League government came to power we in a meeting at my Jessore residence decided to seek for our female members one reserved seat for women in parliament."
"As we met with Prime Minister and Awami League chief Sheikh Hasina at her Sudha Sadan residence on January 23, she assured us of considering the matter,” he added.