City Desk :
The 19th session of the current parliament that began Sunday will continue till September 1. The session will start at 5pm on each working day.
The decisions came at a meeting of the Business Advisory Committee (BAC) of the current parliament held at Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban in Dhaka. It also decided that the speaker may extend or cut the working days of the current session, reports UNB.
Committee Chair and Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury presided over the meeting.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Amir Hossain Amu, Tofail Ahmed, Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim, Obaidul Quader, Rashed Khan Menon, Hasanul Huq Inu, Anisul Huq, Golam Mohammad Quader, Anisul Islam Mahmud and Noor-E-Alam attended it.
Parliament returned to the session at 5pm, offering the highest forum for the people’s representatives to be heard for the first time since the onset of the much-talked-about power cuts and hike in fuel prices.