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Bangladesh elects on national level a legislature with one house or chamber. The unicameral Jatiyo Sangshad,meaning national parliament,has 350 members of which 300 members are directly elected through a national election for a five-year term in single-seat constituencies while 50 memberships are reserved for the women who are selected by the ruling party or coalition. The Prime Minister is the head of the government. The president who is the head of the state is elected by the National Parliament. The president of Bangladesh is a ceremonial post and does not exercise any control over the running of the state.
General elections were held in Bangladesh on 1 October 2001. The 300 seats of the Jatiya Sangsad were contested by 1,935 candidates representing 54 parties and 484 independents. The elections were the second to be held under the caretaker government concept,introduced in 1996.
Raihan Akhter Banu was a member of parliament of Bangladesh and a leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). She started her political career as a student leader of the then East Pakistan Student League that is currently known as Bangladesh Chhatra League. As an organiser,she actively took part in the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971. She was elected as a member of parliament of Bangladesh in the 8th Parliament on the nomination of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). She falls in the list of both 20th-century women politicians and 21st-century women politicians,as she started her politics in 1969 and became an MP in 2004.
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- ↑ "Constituency 313". Bangladesh Parliament. Archived from the original on 13 June 2023. Retrieved 13 June 2023.
- ↑ "45 woman MPs elected". The Daily Star. 20 March 2009. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
- ↑ "Juba Mahila League holds council after 12 years today". The Independent. Retrieved 2 April 2020.