Shamsun Nahar


Shamsun Nahar or Shamshun Nahar Chapa is a politician of the Bangladesh Awami League. She was elected to the 11th Jatiya Sangsad of Bangladesh representing Tangail District on a reserved seat category for women. Chapa served as the state minister for education from 1 March 2024 until 6 August 2024.

Early life

Shamsun Nahar was born at Tangail district. Chapa's father's name was Kasim Uddin Ahmed, a chairman of a village of Tangail, and her mother's name was Hamida Begum. Her brother, Abdur Razzaque, was a minister of agriculture. She was the general secretary of the Bangladesh Chhatra League unit of Shamsunnahar Hall while studying at the University of Dhaka.

Career

Chapa retired from the National Institute of Mass Communication on 1 January 2016.
Nahar is an Awami League politician of Bangladesh. She was elected without competition among 49 others as 11th Jatiya Sangsad Member on the women's reserve seat-13. The speaker of the house Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury took her oath as a member on 20 February 2019.
She is the Education and Human Resource Affairs Secretary of the Awami League.