Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury, the sole candidate for the Rangpur-6 (Pirganj), has been elected MP.
Published : 28 Jan 2014, 11:36 AM
The Election Commission issued a gazette on Tuesday about her election, said EC’s Senior Assistant Secretary Mizanur Rahman.
Rangpur Deputy Commissioner and Returning official Farid Ahmed announced her elected from the seat vacated by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
The Speaker will therefore take part in the first session of the 10th Parliament as an elected member. But she can be elected as Speaker again.
A meeting of the Awami League Parliamentary Party at 6pm will finalise nominations for the post of Speaker and Deputy Speaker.
Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury, Bangladesh's first woman Speaker submitted her nomination as the Awami League candidate in Rangpur-6.
The 10th Parliament will go into its first session on Jan 29. The Speaker will have to be elected immediately.
Chaudhury, elected in the ninth Parliament a seat reserved ats for women, was first made State Minister for Women and Children Affairs and then took over as Speaker after her predecessor Abdul Hamid was elected President.
Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury was born on Oct 6, 1966 in Dhaka . Her father Rafiqullah Chaudhury was Personal Secretary of Bangladesh's founding father Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and her mother Professor Naiyer Sultana was a Member of the then Public Service Commission.
She topped her Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examinations in Humanities from the Dhaka education board in 1983 and stood second in the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) examinations from the same board in 1985.
She stood first class first in her LLB (Honours) examination from the Dhaka University in 1989, and cleared the LLM a year later with distinction.
Chaudhury had gone to the UK on a Commonwealth Scholarship and completed her PhD in human rights and constitutional laws from the Essex University in 2000.
She enrolled at the Bar Council in 1992 and with the High Court two years later. In 2008, she was enrolled with the Appellate Division.
Chaudhury became a member of the Bangladesh Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) and Dhaka Bar Association in 2000.