Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Murshid na ɗaya daga cikin mata biyu da aka zaɓa kai tsaye zuwa Majalisar Dokokin lardin Gabashin Bengal a 1954 akan tikitin United Front. A matsayinta na mataimakiyar mataimakiyar Gwamnatin Mujibnagar a gudun hijira ta nemi amincewa da Bangladesh daga gwamnatin Indiya, da gaske don samun goyon baya ga yakin 'Yantar da Bangladesh.
Ka yi haƙuri. Wannan ya sa gwamnatin sojin Pakistan ta yanke mata hukuncin shekaru 14 na tsananin ɗaurin kurkuku ba tare da halarta ba. A cikin Bangladesh mai zaman kanta, an nada ta a 1972 a matsayin ministan jihar na kiwon lafiya da jin dadin jama'a a cikin majalisar Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. An zabe ta a majalisar farko ta kasar a shekarar 1973. Ta bar siyasa bayan kisan Sheikh Mujibur Rahman da kisan gillar da aka yi wa manyan ministocin gwamnati hudu, ciki har da Tajuddin Ahmed, firaministan Bangladesh a gudun hijira, da Syed Nazrul Islam, tsohon shugaban rikon kwarya na Bangladesh, a gudun hijira a shekarar 1975.