Meher Afroze Chumki | |
Native Name: | মেহের আফরোজ চুমকি |
Office2: | Member of Parliament |
Term Start2: | 12 June 1996 |
Term End2: | 1 October 2001 |
Constituency2: | Reserved Seats |
Office1: | Member of Parliament |
Term Start1: | 6 January 2008 |
Term End1: | 7 January 2024 |
Constituency1: | Gazipur-5 |
Successor1: | Akhtaruzzaman |
Office: | Minister of State for Women and Children Affairs |
Term Start: | 12 January 2014 |
Term End: | 3 January 2019 |
Primeminister: | Sheikh Hasina |
Predecessor: | Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury |
Successor: | Sheikh Hasina |
Office4: | President of Bangladesh Mohila Awami League |
Term Start4: | 24 December 2022 |
Birth Date: | 1 November 1959[1] |
Birth Place: | Gazipur, East Pakistan, Pakistan |
Nationality: | Bangladeshi |
Party: | Bangladesh Awami League |
Alma Mater: | University of Dhaka |
Spouse: | Mohammad Masudur Rahman |
Awards: | Anannya Top Ten Awards (2014) |
Father: | Moyez Uddin |
Mother: | Bilquis Begum |
Meher Afroze Chumki (born 1 November 1959) is a Bangladeshi politician. She was the State Minister for Women and Children Affairs.[2] She is the incumbent president of Bangladesh Mohila Awami League at the Sixth National Council held in December 2022.[3]
Chumki was born on 1 November 1959 to Moyez Uddin. Her father, Moyez Uddin, was a member of parliament who was assassinated in 1984.[4] She completed her bachelor's degree in botany from the University of Dhaka.
Between 1996 and 2001, Chumki served in Parliament in the reserved seats for women. She represented the Gazipur-5 constituency.[5] In 2009, she was elected to the Parliament and in 2013, was sworn in as State Minister for Women and Children Affairs.[6]
Chumki won the Anannya Shirshodosh award in September 2015.[7]