Merina Rahman

Rahman was elected to the reserved seats for women in parliament in 2005 as a candidate of Jatiya Party.[1] In February 2006 she and five other Members of Parliament from the Jatiya Party attended parliament despite the Jatiya Party decision to boycott it over what they termed unfair treatment from the Deputy Speaker of the Parliament.[2] She was part of the 2006 parliamentary delegation that visited the 114th Inter-Parliamentary Union conference in Kenya.[3] She was nominated to Parliament from the reserved seats for women as a candidate from the Jatiya Party in 2009.[4] Her nomination was cancelled after the Bangladesh Election Commission found the signature of her sponsor to be a fraud.[5] She was re-elected to the parliament from a reserved seat in 2014.[6][7] She is a member of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Ministry of Environment and Forest.[8] She was part of a parliamentary probe committee formed on 20 March 2016 to look into recruitment activities related to the Climate change Trust.[9]

Rahman was the sister of former President of Bangladesh and founding chairman of Jatiya Party, Hussain Mohammad Ershad. Her daughter Mehe Zebunnesa Rahman is a University professor and married to Jatiya Party Member of Parliament Ziauddin Ahmed Bablu.[10]