Staff Correspondent
The parliament resumes its session on Sunday after a two-day weekend recess with the main opposition lawmakers still keeping off the house over the seating plan row.
Scheduled to begin at 4.45 pm, the ninth sitting of the first session of the ninth parliament will deal with businesses such as regular question-answer session, call attention notices and discussion on thanks motion on presidential address.
The lawmakers of the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party and its allies, who are staying off the parliamentary proceedings, are expected to hold a meeting to decide the next course of action.
They demanded rearrangement of seating in the parliament putting more opposition lawmakers on the front row.
The speaker, Abdul Hamid, changed the seating plan made by former speaker Jamiruddin Sircar, who put nine out of 29 BNP lawmakers on the front benches.
Hamid pushed five of them to the rear seats, which resulted in the opposition’s boycott of the parliament.
The speaker, however, called on the opposition lawmakers to join the parliamentary proceedings to play their role and gave an assurance of reconsidering their demands.
The treasury bench lawmakers say the opposition gets only three seats in the front row in keeping with their proportionate share.
Courtesy: newagebd.com
