UNB, Dhaka :
Forty-eight women Members of Parliament (MPs), elected from the reserved seats unopposed, were sworn in on Sunday.
Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury administered the oath to the new 48 MPs at the Oath Chamber of the Jatiya Sandsad.
Of the 48 MPs, 38 were elected to the 10th parliament from Awami League, while 5 from Jatiya Party, three independent ones, and one each from Bangladesh Workers’ Party and Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal-Jasad.
The 38 AL MPs 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 Jasad 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 Razia Kajol.
Earlier on Wednesday, the Election Commission declared the 48 women MPs elected unopposed from reserved seats as they had no rival.
The commission will have to 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.
Forty-eight women Members of Parliament (MPs), elected from the reserved seats unopposed, were sworn in on Sunday.
Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury administered the oath to the new 48 MPs at the Oath Chamber of the Jatiya Sandsad.
Of the 48 MPs, 38 were elected to the 10th parliament from Awami League, while 5 from Jatiya Party, three independent ones, and one each from Bangladesh Workers’ Party and Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal-Jasad.
The 38 AL MPs 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 Jasad 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 Razia Kajol.
Earlier on Wednesday, the Election Commission declared the 48 women MPs elected unopposed from reserved seats as they had no rival.
The commission will have to 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.
