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Raihan Akhter Banu Roni
Bangladeshi politician
Raihan Akhter Banu (nickname: Roni; Bengali: রায়হান আখতার বানু, 11 January 1952 - 3 April 2024) was a member of parliament[1][2] of Bangladesh and a leader of the 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. As an organiser, she actively took part in the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971. She was elected as a member of parliament (Member of the Jatiyo Sangshad) of Bangladesh in the 8th Parliament on the nomination of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP).[3] 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.