JS body for action against outsiders in MP hostels
Stern measures will be taken if any lawmaker illegally allows others except his/her family members to stay in their allotted flats in the parliament members' buildings and MP hostels in the city, a parliamentary body said yesterday.
The House Committee of the parliament also asked the parliament secretariat to prepare a list of flats within two weeks where outsiders are living in lieu of the respective lawmakers or his/her family members.
The watchdog also expressed strong resentment over the close down of parliament cafeteria from December 13 and asked the secretariat to submit a report on how to resume operations of the cafeteria.
“It is totally illegal that lawmakers allow outsiders in the flats which were allocated for them to stay. We have found that a number of lawmakers are not staying in their respective flats and allowing others to stay there causing security threat to others,” Abdus Shahid, chief of the committee told reporters after a meeting at the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban.
Meeting sources told The Daily Star that as many as 28 lawmakers are not living in their respective flats allocated in the parliament members' building at city's Manik Mia Avenue and MP Hostels at Nakhalpara.
“We have asked the parliament secretariat to finalise a list of flats where outsiders are staying instead of the respective lawmakers,” Abdus Shahid, also a chief whip of parliament said.
“After getting the final list from the parliament secretariat, letters will be sent to the respective lawmakers again urging them not to allow outsiders to stay in their flats,” he added.
On closing down of parliament cafeteria, the committee chief said, we have asked parliament secretariat to come up with a report on how to reopen the cafeteria.
Meanwhile, the lone cafeteria styled “Shapta Dinga” shut down on December 13 following dispute between the two proprietors of the cafeteria causing food sufferings of hundreds of officials and employees of parliament secretariat.
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