Panel of chairmen named for parliament’s fourth session

Five MPs, including Md Shahjahan and Shahjahan Chowdhury, will chair sittings of the 13th parliament's fourth session when the Speaker and Deputy Speaker are absent.

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Five members have been named to the panel of chairmen to help run the fourth session of the 13th Jatiya Sangsad.

Speaker Major (retd) Hafiz Uddin Ahmed, Bir Bikram, announced the names at the first sitting of the session, which began at 3:30pm on Monday (November 9). The Speaker presided over the sitting.

The members of the panel are Md Shahjahan, MP for Noakhali-4; Sarwar Jamal Nizam, MP for Chattogram-12; Muhammad Nawshad Zamir, MP for Panchagarh-1; Shahjahan Chowdhury, MP for Chattogram-15; and Rasheda Begum Hira, MP from a reserved seat for women.

Under parliament’s rules of procedure, when the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker are both absent, any member of the panel, in order of seniority, presides over the sitting.

(Source: Dhaka Mail)

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