BNP wants 2 more JS body chairs
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has again demanded the ruling party give them two more chairs of the parliamentary standing committees.
Opposition Chief Whip Zainul Abdin Farroque sent a letter to the speaker on Sunday reiterating his party's demand.
Currently, BNP lawmakers are holding chairs of two parliamentary standing committee--one on the ministry of fisheries and livestock and other is environment and forest ministry.
Opposition lawmakers led by BNP have been boycotting the current session of the parliament. But they are attending the meetings of the parliamentary bodies.
”We had raised the same demand earlier. We raised it again as the prime minister reportedly said that different parliamentary standing committees will be reconstituted,” the opposition chief whip told The Daily Star yesterday.
He claimed that the prime minister earlier assured the opposition of giving four chairs of the standing committees.
“We reminded the ruling party about their pledge to this end,” he said.
The opposition chief whip said he has yet to receive any response to that letter.
Meanwhile, the parliamentary standing committee on social welfare ministry was reconstituted yesterday incorporating Awami League lawmaker Nurunnabi Chowdhury, who was elected to Bhola-3 by-polls last April.
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