BNP schedules parliamentary meeting on Wednesday

Chief Whip Nurul Islam Moni has requested all of the ruling party’s MPs to attend the meeting

A meeting for lawmakers from the BNP, the ruling party in the 13th National Parliament, will be held on Wednesday.

A press statement from the National Parliament Secretariat said that the meeting will be held at 11am in the meeting room for the ruling party in the Parliament Building. The meeting will be presided over by the leader of the parliament.

Chief Whip Nurul Islam Moni has requested all ruling party MPs to attend the meeting.

The first session of the 13th National Parliament will be on Mar 12.

On Feb 17, the first meeting of the BNP parliamentary party unanimously elected party chairman Tarique Rahman as the head of the 13th parliament.

The elections for the 13th parliament were held on Feb 12.

The results of two seats in the 300-seat parliament remain pending, while voting in one constituency has been suspended due to the death of a candidate.

Of the remaining 297 seats, the BNP won 209, Jamaat-e-Islami 68, National Citizen Party (NCP) six, and Bangladesh Khelafat Majlis won two seats.

In addition, Islami Andolan Bangladesh, Gono Adhikar Parishad, Bangladesh Jatiya Party (BJP), Gana Sanghati Andolan and Khelafat Majlis won one seat each. Independent candidates have taken seven seats.