Dy speaker rejects all opposition notices

8 June 2010, 18:00 PM

Staff Correspondent

Deputy Speaker Col (retd) Shawkat Ali yesterday rejected all 11 notices submitted by the BNP-led opposition lawmakers for discussion on various issues in parliament. In their notices submitted to the parliament secretariat, the opposition lawmakers demanded that the House adjourn the scheduled business of the day and hold discussions on building collapse at Begunbari, closure of the daily Amar Desh and the arrest of its acting editor, grabbing of canals, attack on the opposition by ruling party men and the issue of less water flow at Farakka point. But the deputy speaker, who was presiding over the sitting at that time, disposed of the notices and said the authorities concerned will take necessary measures to this end. He also said the contents of some notices are not clear and some others seemed to be based on assumption. BNP lawmakers Mahbub Uddin Khokon and Zafrul Islam Chowdhury and Jamaat-e-Islami lawmaker Hamidur Rahman Azad submitted the notices.