The 22th special brief session of 11th parliament was prorogued today after five sittings as the session started on April 6.
The special session of the Jatiya Sangsad (JS) was convened marking its golden jubilee as the JS first started journey on April 7, 1973 under the leadership of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
Before reading out the prorogation order of the president, Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury presented a documentary prepared based on address of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at the Suhrawardy Uddyan in Dhaka on his Home Coming Day on January 10, 1972.
The speech of Bangabandhu was found from the research centre of the Bangladesh Awami League as the duration of the address was 22 minutes two seconds.
Jatiya Sangsad Leader Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina delivered her valedictory speech at the closing of special session of the 11th parliament. Leader of the Opposition Begum Raushan Ershad also spoke.
Marking the golden jubilee of the JS, President M Abdul Hamid gave address on the second day of the special session.
Leader of the Jatiya Sangsad and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina brought a proposal under section 147 of the rules of procedure on April 7 marking the golden jubilee of JS.
A total of 63 treasury and opposition lawmakers participated in the discussion on the proposed motion.
The discussion was continued for 10 hours and twenty-seven minutes.
A total of five parliamentary standing committees were reconstructed during the session.
Then the discussion was unanimously adopted in the Jatiya Sangsad by voice votes.
Notices of eight treasury bills were received and three parliamentary standing committees’ reports also were placed during the session.
Along with the legal procedure, a total of 36 important notices were adopted under section 71.
A total of 469 questions---where 20 were available for the prime minister's question and answer session and 449 for other ministers -were received during the special session.
Before reading out the prorogation order, the Speaker thanked all MPs of treasury and opposition benches.
Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury also thanked all MPs, officials, journalists, law enforcers and fire service and civil defense personnel for their services for smoothly holding the parliament session.
Source: Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS)