BNP Nominates ‘Maayer Daak’ Coordinator Sanjida Islam Tulee for Reserved Women’s Seat
Sanjida Islam Tulee, coordinator of ‘Maayer Daak’ — the platform for families of enforced disappeared persons — has been nominated by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) for a reserved women’s seat in the 13th Jatiya Sangsad.
BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Advocate Ruhul Kabir Rizvi announced the final list of 36 candidates for the reserved seats on Monday (20 April).
Tulee had earlier contested the 13th parliamentary election from Dhaka-14 as a BNP candidate but lost to Jamaat-e-Islami’s Barrister Arman by a margin of 15,857 votes. She secured 80,927 votes with the Paddy Sheaf symbol.
She later filed a complaint alleging election irregularities, vote rigging, and engineering of results. With her nomination for the reserved seat, her election as a woman MP has become almost certain.
Sanjida Islam Tulee gained prominence as the sister of Sajedul Islam Sumon, a BNP leader who was forcibly disappeared in 2013. For over a decade, she has been actively involved in the movement for the return of the disappeared, becoming a prominent voice in both national and international human rights advocacy.
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