Staff Correspondent
The ruling Awami League on Monday published the list of its 36 women candidates for women’s reserved seats in parliament, including two from allied parties and two others from the families of army officers slain in the February 25-26 BDR rebellion.
The AL announced the names of its women candidates for reserved JS seats and distributed confirmation letters among them from the party chief Sheikh Hasina’s Dhanmondi office.
The party picked up the 36 candidates from 779 aspirants who had collected party nomination forms.
The candidates have been asked to collect nomination forms from the party’s Dhanmondi office before 12:00pm today. They will have to submit the forms on Wednesday with treasury challan of Tk 10,000. According to Election Commission’s revised schedule for elections to women’s reserved seats, nomination submission closes on March 12.
The women leaders who won the AL’s nominations are – Ashrafunnesa Mosharraf (Dhaka), Jahanara Begum (Dhaka), Shahida Tareq Dipti (Dhaka), Safia Khatun (Dhaka), Asma Jarin Jhumu (Dhaka), Momtaj Begum (Manikganj), Tarana Halim (Tangail), Dr Shirin Sharmin Chowdhury (Noakhali), Faridunnahar Laily (Noakhali), Rubi Rahman, widow of late Nurul Islam, president of Ganatantri Party (Noakhali), Jobeda Khatun (Comilla), Amina Ahmed, wife of National Awami Party (NAP) chief Prof Muzaffar Ahmed (Comilla), Chamon Ara Toiyab (Chittagong), Eathinob Rakhayin (Cox’s Bazar), Farida Rahman (Narail), Noor Afroj Ali (Khulna-Bagerhut), Noor Jahan Begum (Jhenaidah), Dr Hamida Banu Shova (Nilphamari), Sultana Bulbul (Dinajpur), Saleha Mosharraf (Faridpur), Rawshan Jahan Shati (Jessore-Kushtia), Jebunnesa Haque (Sylhet), Tahura Ali (Jamalpur), Shaheen Monwara Haque (Naogaon), Nazma Akter (Bagerhut), Apu Ukil (Netrakona), Mahfuza Rahman Rima (Jaipurhat), Sadhana Halder (Pirojpur), Zinnatunnesa Talukder (Rajshahi), Khadija Khatun Shefali (Bogra), Shefali Momtaj (Natore), Shawkat Ara Begum (Chapainawabganj), Farida Rahman Hira (Panchagarh), Ahmed Nazmin Sultana (Kurigram), Momtaj Begum (Munshiganj) and Parvin Talukder Maya (Barisal).
Courtesy of www.newagebd.com
