Fourth Session Today: Parliament may heat up over Constitutional reforms
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The fourth session of the 13th National Parliament begins Monday. The session will continue until November 18. The session will sit at 4:20 PM every day except for the weekly holidays of Fridays and Saturdays. In this session, 3,751 questions have been submitted for Members of the Parliament, including 174 questions for Prime Minister Tarique Rahman, to respond.
These decisions were taken at the fifth meeting of the Business Advisory Committee held Sunday, in the Cabinet Room of the National Parliament Building. The meeting was chaired by Committee Chairman and Speaker Hafiz Uddin Ahmed. On October 14, President Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir summoned the session under the power of Article 72(1) of the Constitution.
Relevant sources said that in this brief session, the opposition party may discuss the workers' movement demanding a minimum wage of Tk 30,000, the increase in LPG prices, and the implementation of the July Charter. Parliament may also heat up over the constitution reform issue. However, no proposal for constitutional amendment is being tabled in this session. A special committee is working on preparing the proposal. There are plans to present it in the fifth session next January.
After the meeting, Chief Whip Nurul Islam Moni said that ordinances and bills have been distributed among the Members of Parliament. They will get sufficient time for preparation. Committee members, the Leader of the House and Prime Minister Tarique Rahman took part in the meeting. Among the committee members, Opposition Leader Shafiqur Rahman, Gayeshwar Chandra Roy, Finance and Planning Minister Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury, Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed, Deputy Speaker Kaiser Kamal, Chief Whip of the National Parliament Nurul Islam Moni, Law Minister Md. Asaduzzaman, ATM Azharul Islam, and Opposition Chief Whip Nahid Islam also participated.
