 Rahman was elected to the reserved seats for women in parliament in 2005 as a candidate of Jatiya Party.In February 2006 she and five other Members of Parliament from the Jatiya Party attended parliament despite the Jatiya Party decision to boycott it over what they termed unfair treatment from the Deputy Speaker of the Parliament.She was part of the 2006 parliamentary delegation that visited the 114th Inter-Parliamentary Union conference in Kenya.