10 JS bodies formed
A lawmaker from the main opposition Jatiya Party was made chief of the parliamentary standing committee on Public Accounts, for the first time in history.
Jatiya Sangsad this evening unanimously formed the parliamentary watchdog on Parliamentary Accounts with JP MP Rustam Ali Farazi as its chief.
The House also formed nine other parliamentary standing committees on different ministries with two former heavyweight ministers dropped from Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s new cabinet as chief of two JS body.
Workers Party President Rashed Khan Menon, who was social welfare minister in Sheikh Hasina’s immediate past cabinet, was made chief of parliamentary standing committee on social welfare ministry.
Another former minister Mostafizur Rahman was made chief of parliamentary standing committee on primary and mass education ministry. He was the minister of that ministry in Sheikh Hasina’s last government from 2014 to 2018.
Sources in the parliament secretariat yesterday confirmed The Daily Star that no MP from the opposition was made chairman of Public Accounts in the country’s parliamentary history. PAC is considered one of the most significant and important parliamentary standing committee.
According to the rules of procedure of parliament, there shall be a Committee on Public Accounts for the examination of accounts showing the appropriation of sums granted by the House for the expenditure of the government, the annual finance accounts of the government and such other accounts laid before the House as the Committee may think fit.
AL MP Mahiuddin Khan Alamgir was made chief of parliamentary standing committee on Public Accounts in 2014 parliament.
The other JS body formed yesterday were: JS body on Road Transport and Bridges ministry headed by ruling Awami League MP Ekabbor Hossain, Water Resources ministry headed by AL MP Romesh Chandra Sen, Disaster Management and Relief ministry headed by AL MP AB Tajul Islam, Power Ministry AL MP and Whip Shahiduzzaman Sarkar, Estimate Committee headed by AL MP Abdus Shahid, Youth and Sports ministry headed by AL MP and former state minister for environment, forest and climate change affairs ministry Abdullah Al Islam Jacob and Civil Aviation Ministry headed by AL MP RAM Obaidul Muktadir Chowdury.
With yesterday’s formation of 10 standing committees, the parliament so far formed 34 parliamentary standing committees.
Former heavyweight ministers who were dropped from Sheikh Hasina’s new cabinet were made chiefs of different parliamentary standing committees.
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