Staff Correspondent
The president, Iajuddin Ahmed, on Tuesday appointed ruling Awami League lawmaker Abdus Shahid chief whip of parliament, a parliament secretariat official said.
‘I will be attending office from tomorrow,’ Shahid, the lawmaker for the Moulvibazar 4 constituency, told New Age on Tuesday, confirming his appointment with the rank of a minister.
The Moulvibazar unit Awami League president, Shahid, was elected lawmaker to the fifth, the seventh and the eighth parliament.
He was appointed a whip for the seventh parliament and worked as the chief whip of the opposition in the eighth parliament as his party remained in the opposition bench. Shahid also worked as member of the public accounts committee and the parliamentary standing committees on different ministries.
Parliament secretariat officials said the president would soon appoint seven other whips of the parliament with the rank of a state minister to run parliamentary affairs for five years.
The ninth parliament goes into its first session on January 25. The ruling Awami League-led alliance won 262 out of the 300 parliamentary seats in the December 29 general elections.
The ninth parliament was supposed to come into force in January 2008, but the parliamentary polls, originally scheduled for January 22, 2007, were postponed because of promulgation of a state of emergency against the backdrop of political changeover.
Courtesy: newagebd.com
