Lutfun Nesa Explained

Lutfun Nesa
Office:Member of Parliament
Term Start:5 January 2014
Birth Date:25 December 1985
Birth Place:Patuakhali District, Bangladesh
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 on 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]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: MISSES LUTFUN NESA Biography . Amarmp . 6 December 2018 . en.
  2. Web site: MISSES LUTFUN NESA All Messages . Amarmp . 6 December 2018 . en.
  3. News: 48 female MPs declared elected unopposed . 6 December 2018 . Dhaka Tribune . 19 March 2014.
  4. News: The fake 'Sultan' of Patuakhali . 6 December 2018 . Prothom Alo . en.
  5. News: BFUJ,DUJ leaders slate filing of case againnst [sic] Bangladesh Protidin Editor Naem Nizam ]. 6 December 2018 . Business News 24 BD.