farhana is the central international affairs secretary of thebangladesh nationalist party (bnp). as a barrister, she worked in the legal profession of the high court of bangladesh. in the eleventh jatiya sangsad election, she represented the bnp as the only female member of parliament of bnp. due to widespread irregularities in the 2018 bangladeshi elections, rumeen was one of only seven members of parliament from bnp, which was the main opposition party of bangladesh until 2014, and one of two major political parties in the democratic era of bangladesh from 1991-2014, until persecution of opposition leaders and incarceration of the former prime minister begum khaleda zia seriously debilitated the party.