Matia Chowdhury is a prominent Bangladesh

Bangladesh

Bangladesh , officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh is a sovereign state located in South Asia. It is bordered by India on all sides except for a small border with Burma to the far southeast and by the Bay of Bengal to the south...

i politician

Politician

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. She is currently a presidium member of Bangladesh Awami League

Bangladesh Awami League

The Bangladesh Awami League , commonly known as the Awami League, is the mainstream center-left, secular political party in Bangladesh...

, a major political party

Political party

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. She is a Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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 and the minister of agriculture under the prime ministership of Sheikh Hasina

Sheikh Hasina

Sheikh Hasina is a Bangladeshi politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Awami League, a major political party, since 1981. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangladesh and widow of a reputed nuclear...

. She held this post once before from 1996 to 2001 during the previous tenure of Awami League in power.

She is well known in South Asia

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 for her fiery speeches and her adamant attitude, qualities that have earned her the nickname of Ogni Konna or Girl of Fire. Although she started her political career with the left-wing party, National Awami Party

National Awami Party

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 or NAP, she is now one of the most senior leaders of the Awami League.

She was married to the late Bajlur Rahman, editor

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 of The Daily Sangbad, one of the oldest Bangla dailies in existence.