Nahid Islam

Nahid Islam (born 1998) is a Bangladeshi politician and activist from Dhaka. He studied sociology at the University of Dhaka, where his bachelor's thesis examined the history of student movements in Bangladesh. He became politically active as a university student, joining environmental and student-rights campaigns from 2017 onward. In 2024, as central coordinator of Students Against Discrimination, he helped lead the quota reform movement that evolved into the mass uprising of July 2024. During the protests, he was detained and mistreated by security forces before being found injured in Purbachal. Following the change of government in August 2024, he was appointed an adviser in the interim government led by Muhammad Yunus, overseeing the posts, telecommunications, and information technology portfolio, as well as the information and broadcasting ministry. He was named to the Time 100 Next list in 2024. He resigned from the interim government in February 2025 to found the National Citizen Party, of which he serves as convener. He is contesting the Dhaka-11 constituency in the February 2026 general election.