Raihan Akhter Banu Roni

Freitag, 11. Januar 1952

Raihan Akhter Banu (Nickname: Roni; Bengali: রায়হান আখতার বানু, born 11 January 1952) is an ex Member of Parliament of Bangladesh and an active Political leader of 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 (বাংলাদেশ ছাত্র লীগ). 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 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.