Shamshun Nahar Chapa | |
Native Name: | শামসুন নাহার |
Native Name Lang: | bn |
Office: | State Minister of Education |
Primeminister: | Sheikh Hasina |
Term Start: | 1 March 2024 |
Term End: | 6 August 2024 |
Predecessor: | Kazi Keramat Ali |
Constituency Mp1: | Reserved women's seat–19 |
Parliament1: | Bangladesh |
Term Start1: | 28 February 2024 |
Term End1: | 6 August 2024 |
Predecessor1: | Kazi Kaniz Sultana |
Birth Date: | df=y 1 June 1958 |
Relations: | Abdur Razzaque (brother) |
Shamshun Nahar Chapa (born 1 June 1958)[1] is a Bangladesh Awami League politician and a former Jatiya Sangsad member from a women's reserved for Tangail District.[2] [3] Chapa served as the state minister for education from 1 March 2024 until 6 August 2024.
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.[4] She was the general secretary of the Bangladesh Chhatra League unit of Shamsunnahar Hall while studying at the University of Dhaka.
Chapa retired from the National Institute of Mass Communication on 1 January 2016. She is the Education and Human Resource Affairs Secretary of the Awami League.