Simeen Hussain Rimi | |
Native Name: | সিমিন হোসেন রিমি |
Native Name Lang: | bn |
Office: | Minister of State for Women and Children Affairs |
Primeminister: | Sheikh Hasina |
Predecessor: | Fazilatun Nessa Indira |
Term Start: | 11 January 2024 |
Term End: | 6 August 2024 |
Constituency Mp1: | Gazipur-4 |
Parliament1: | Bangladesh |
Term Start1: | 23 April 2012 |
Term End1: | 6 August 2024 |
Predecessor1: | Sohel Taj |
Birth Date: | 8 September 1961 |
Birth Place: | Gazipur, East Pakistan, Pakistan |
Nationality: | Bangladeshi |
Party: | Bangladesh Awami league |
Father: | Tajuddin Ahmad |
Mother: | Syeda Zohra Tajuddin |
Simeen Hussain Rimi (born 19 August 1961)[1] is a Bangladesh Awami League politician, a former Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Gazipur-4 constituency and a former state minister for Ministry of Women and Children Affairs. She was elected in the 10th Parliamentary Elections held on 5 January 2014 and in the 11th Parliamentary Elections on 31 December 2018. She is chairperson of the parliamentary standing committee of the Ministry of Culture. In November 2022, she became a member of Awami League Presidium.[2]
Rimi was born in 1961 to Tajuddin Ahmad, the inaugural Prime Minister of Bangladesh, and Syeda Zohra, another politician. Rimi has two sisters, Mahjabin Ahmad Mimi and Sharmin Ahmad Reepi, and a brother, Sohel Taj.[3] She married Mushtaq Hussain.[4]
Rimi was the Jatiya Sangsad member from Gazipur-4 (Kapasia).[5] [6]