Forty-eight Members of Parliament (MPs) elected from the women reserved seats unopposed took oath of office on Sunday.
Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury administered the oath to the newly elected lawmakers of the 10th Parliament at the Oath Taking Room of Parliament.
The 38 MPs from Awami League (AL) and one each from Workers Party and Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JSD) took oath in the first phase. They were followed by five Jatiya Party (JP) MPs and three from independent lawmakers’ alliance.The AL lawmakers from women reserved seats are Selina Jahan Lita, Safura Begum, Hosne Ara Lutfa Dalia, Advocate Umme Kulsum Smriti, Begum Akhter Jahan, Selina Begum, Selina Akhter Banu, Laila Arjuman Banu, Shirin Nayeem, Kamrul Laila Jolly, Happy Boral, Rifat Amin, Nasima Ferdousi, Lutfun Nesa, Momtaz Begum Advocate, Advocate Tarana Halim, Monwara Begum, Mahjabin Khaled, Fatema Zohra Rani, Dilara Begum, Fatematuz Zohura, Fazilatunnesa Indira, Pinu Khan, Sanjida Khanam, Nilufar Jafar Ullah, Rokhsana Yasmin Chhuti, Advocate Navana Akhter, Asmatul Kibria Keya Chowdhury, Shamsun Nahar Begum, Fazilaunnesa Bappy, Wasika Ayesha Khan, Jahanara Begum Surma, Firoza
Begum Chinu, Amina Ahmed, Sabina Akhter Tuhin, Rahima Akhter, Advocate Hosne Ara Bably and Kamrun Nahar Chowdhury Lovely.
The five Jatiya Party MPs are Nur-e-Hasna Lily Chowdhury, Mahzabin Morshed, Merina Rahman, Rawshan Ara Mannan and Shahanara Begum.
The JSD MP is Lutfa Taher, wife of late Col Taher and the Workers Party MP is Hazera Khatun.
The three independent MPs are Kazi Rosy, Nurjahan Begum and Umme Rajia Kajol.
After the oath-taking, the new MPs signed the signature book at the Parliament Secretariat and joined a photo session.
Later in the afternoon the new lawmakers joined the ongoing session of Parliament.
The Election Commission (EC) on Wednesday declared the 48 women MPs elected unopposed from the reserved seats as they had no rival.
The EC will hold election to two more reserved seats out 50 as it cancelled candidature of an AL aspirant Sabiha Nahar and Jatiya Party aspirant Khorshed Ara Haque on the grounds that the two MP aspirants
did not pay their telephone bills before the submission of nomination papers.
Senior Secretary of Jatiya Sangsad Md Ashraful Mokbul conducted oath-taking ceremony. Deputy Speaker of the House Md. Fazle Rabbi Miah and Religious Affairs Minister Principal Motiur Rahman, among others, were present on the occasion. – Staff Reporter
