Rafia Sultana Rafi, senior joint convener of the National Citizen Party (NCP) in Bogura district and former student of Dhaka University, passed away early Wednesday, April 8, 2026, at a private hospital in Dhaka. She was 32 years old. According to family and party sources, she was admitted to the hospital around 10 p.m. after feeling unwell, later transferred to the ICU as her condition worsened, and died around 3 a.m. She is survived by her husband and two daughters.

Rafi studied in the Department of Islamic Studies at Dhaka University during the 2012–13 session and was active in various student movements. She contested for the vice president post in the Rokeya Hall student union election in 2019 and participated in the quota reform movement in 2018 and the July Revolution in 2024. Later, she joined the NCP and served as senior joint convener in Bogura, also holding a founding joint convener role in the Ganaodhikar Parishad.

Her death has cast a shadow of mourning across NCP and related political circles. Party leaders expressed deep sorrow, prayed for her departed soul, and conveyed condolences to her bereaved family.