Reserved seat MPs take oath today

The
oath-taking ceremony for the newly-elected MPs for the reserved women’s seats
in the 13th Jatiya Sangsad will be held today.
The
ceremony will take place at the oath-taking room of Jatiya Sangsad at 9:00pm,
the parliament secretariat said in a release yesterday.
The
Election Commission on April 30 published a gazette declaring 49 lawmakers elected
unopposed to the reserved women’s seats in the 13th parliament.
According
to the gazette, 36 MPs were elected from the BNP-led alliance, 12 from the
Jamaat-led alliance, and one as an independent.
The BNP
alliance MPs are Selima Rahman, Shirin Sultana, Rasheda Begum Hira, Rehana
Akter Ranu, Newaz Halima Arly, Mosammat Farida Yasmin, Bilkis Islam, Shakila
Farzana, Helen Jerin Khan, Nilufar Chowdhury Moni, Nipun Roy Chowdhury, Zeeba
Amina Khan, Mahmuda Habiba, Sabira Sultana, Sunsila Jabrin, Sanjida Islam
Tulee, Sultana Ahmed, Fahmida Haque, Anna Minj, Subarna Shikdar, Shamim Ara
Begum Swapna, Shammi Akter, Ferdousi Ahmed, Bithika Binte Hossain, Suraiya
Jerin, Mansura Akter, Jahrat Adib Chowdhury, Momtaz Alam, Fahima Nasrin, Arifa
Sultana, Sanjida Yasmin, Shawkat Ara Akter, Madhabi Marma, Selina Sultana,
Nadia Pathan Papon, and Rezeka Sultana.
Jamaat-e-Islami’s
MPs are Nurunnisa Siddika, Marzia Begum, Sabikun Nahar Munni, Mardia Momtaz,
Nazmun Nahar Nilu, Mahfuza Hannan, Sajeda Samad, Shamsunnahar Begum, and Rokeya
Begum, mother of July martyr Jabir Ibrahim.
The other
MPs from the 11-party alliance partners are Mahmuda Alam Mitu of NCP, Tasmia
Pradhan of Jagpa, and Mahbuba Hakim of Bangladesh Khelafat Majlis.
The
independent MP is Sultana Jasmin.
A total of
53 aspirants submitted nomination papers, but four were rejected during
scrutiny.
On April
8, the EC announced the election schedule for the reserved women’s seats. The
deadline for submitting nomination papers for the 50 reserved women’s seats was
April 21.
















