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Seating plan row in new Bangladesh Parliament

by Sanjay Jha | January 28, 2009 at 02:54 am

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The newly elected Members of Parliament continued to make news in Bangladesh. There has been a seating row in the Parliament hoouse.

The seating plan row continued in Bangladesh's ninth parliament as speaker-mediated talks between the ruling and opposition parties ended inclusively ahead of the start the second day of its maiden session on Wednesday.

Speaker Abdul Hamid today re-arranged the seating order for the lawmakers in the parliament with four seats allocated for the opposition BNP in the front row.

Oli Ahmed, the lone lawmaker from the Liberal Democratic Party, has got his previous seat in the front row on the left of the speaker.

Outgoing speaker Jamiruddin Sircar, at the first session of the ninth parliament, allocated nine front seats on the left of the speaker for BNP.

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saifsohel

at 22:16 on January 28th, 2009

Manik is a carpenter. Working in Zinjira of Dhaka city. but in december he came with his father for long time to sale the flag og bangladesh. The symbol of freedom, prosperity, soul and...
His father is a CNG autorickshaw driver and he sale the flag for a long years. now as the family tradition Manik bears the flag of the country. Today they came to the front of National parliament Building of Bangladesh with his friend Rajib to sale the flag.
LOng live Bangladesh.

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