Speaker rejects opposition notices
Wednesday, 9 September 2009
Speaker Abdul Hamid has rejected 36 adjournment notices submitted by three opposition and one treasury lawmakers, reports bdnews24.com.
The BNP's Jafrul Islam Chowdhury and Nazim Uddin Ahmed, and the lone independent MP Fazlul Azim submitted 35 notices.
Awami League's Omar Faruk Chowdhury filed an adjournment notice on irrigation by submersible pumps.
The opposition's notices were on the deteriorating law and order, price hike of essentials, construction of the Tipaimukh dam, tender-rigging by the ruling party's student and youth wings, repressions on the BNP leaders and activists and the move to evict opposition chief Khaleda Zia from her cantonment house.
Clarifying the cancellation of the notices, Hamid said most of the issues raised by the MPs could be redressed under the law.
The BNP's Jafrul Islam Chowdhury and Nazim Uddin Ahmed, and the lone independent MP Fazlul Azim submitted 35 notices.
Awami League's Omar Faruk Chowdhury filed an adjournment notice on irrigation by submersible pumps.
The opposition's notices were on the deteriorating law and order, price hike of essentials, construction of the Tipaimukh dam, tender-rigging by the ruling party's student and youth wings, repressions on the BNP leaders and activists and the move to evict opposition chief Khaleda Zia from her cantonment house.
Clarifying the cancellation of the notices, Hamid said most of the issues raised by the MPs could be redressed under the law.