Salma Islam | |
Constituency Mp: | Reserved women's seat-49 |
Parliament: | Bangladesh |
Term Start: | 28 February 2024 |
Term End: | 6 August 2024 |
Predecessor: | Afroza Haque Rina |
Constituency Mp1: | Reserved women's seat-44 |
Parliament1: | Bangladesh |
Term Start1: | 30 January 2019 |
Term End1: | 29 January 2024 |
Predecessor1: | Noor-E-Hasna Lily Chowdhury |
Successor1: | Faridun Nahar Laily |
Constituency Mp2: | Dhaka-1 |
Parliament2: | Bangladesh |
Term Start2: | 9 January 2014 |
Term End2: | 29 January 2019 |
Predecessor2: | Abdul Mannan Khan |
Successor2: | Salman F Rahman |
Constituency Mp3: | Reserved Women's Seat-45 |
Parliament3: | Bangladesh |
Term Start3: | 25 January 2009 |
Term End3: | 24 January 2014 |
Successor3: | Mahjabeen Morshed |
Party: | Jatiya Party (Ershad) |
Birth Date: | 1 January 1955 |
Nationality: | Bangladeshi |
Spouse: | Nurul Islam Babul |
Salma Islam (born 1 January 1955)[1] is a Bangladeshi lawyer, journalist, politician, and a former Jatiya Sangsad member.[2] She was an MP of Bangladesh Jatiya Sangsad representing the Dhaka-1 constituency.[3] She served as state minister of the Bangladesh government for Ministry of Women and Children Affairs. She is the Member of Presidium as well as current chair of Dhaka (district unit) of Jatiya Party (Ershad). She has been made the new chairman of Jamuna Group after the death of her husband and the conglomerate's founder chairman Nurul Islam Babul.[4]
Islam served as the publisher and editor of Jugantor.[5] The all-party interim government headed by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. President Abdul Hamid administered the oath at the presidential palace. She was taking oath as a member of the constituents of the Awami League-led grand alliance. In December 2013, She, along with six others ministers and advisors of Jatiya Party resigned following the directive of the party chief.[6] She was elected to parliament from Dhaka-1 constituency in 2014 as a Jatiya Party candidate.[7] In 2019, she was made the Jatiya Party's Dhaka district unit president.[8]