Lutfun Nesa
Lutfun Nesa | |
|---|---|
| Member of Parliament | |
| Assumed office 5 January 2014 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 25 December 1985 Patuakhali District, Bangladesh |
| Political party | Bangladesh Awami League |
Lutfun Nesa (লুৎফুন নেছা) is a Bangladesh Awami League politician and the former Member of Parliament from Reserve seat-14 of Patuakhali District.
Early life
Nesa was born on 25 December 1985. She studied up to class eight and is a resident of Patuakhali District.[1]
Career
Nesa was nominated to contest the Reserve Seat-14 for women of the Bangladesh Parliament in 5 January 2014.[2] She, along with 48 out of 50 women candidates from reserve seats, were elected unopposed after the main opposition party, Bangladesh Nationalist Party, boycotted the election.[3]
According to a report by the Prothom Alo, her husband, Sultan Ahmed Mridha, is involved in land grabbing in Patuakhali. His alleged land grabbing increased after Nesa became a Member of Parliament in 2014. He is a former leader of Bangladesh Nationalist Party and present member of Bangladesh Awami League. He had served as the chairman of Patuakhali municipality. According to the report he built a brick kiln on grabbed land.[4] Nesa and her husband filed a defamation case against the editor of Bangladesh Pratidin, Naem Nizam, and Staff reporter of Bangladesh Pratidin, Ruhul Amin Russel for writing about the alleged corruption by Nesa and her husband on 21 December 2017. In the case they demanded 100 million taka in compensation.[5]
References
- ^ "MISSES LUTFUN NESA Biography". Amarmp. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
- ^ "MISSES LUTFUN NESA All Messages". Amarmp. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
- ^ "48 female MPs declared elected unopposed". Dhaka Tribune. 19 March 2014. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
- ^ "The fake 'Sultan' of Patuakhali". Prothom Alo. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
- ^ "BFUJ,DUJ leaders slate filing of case againnst [sic] Bangladesh Protidin Editor Naem Nizam". Business News 24 BD. Retrieved 6 December 2018.