At the age of only 28 years and seven months, Junaid Ahmed Palok of Singra upazila in Natore district took oath with Awami League president Sheikh Hasina as the youngest parliamentarian of the ninth Jatiya Sangsad on January 3, the first day of oath-taking ceremony of MPs (Member of the Parliament).
Awami League leader late Tajuddin Ahmad was the first prime minister of Bangladesh. He served as PM since the independence until January 12, 1972.
Former President and Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad yesterday said it would not be wise for him to become President as it would make him leave politics for ever.
Partha Pratim Bhattacharjee: The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, also the Awami League president, did not place most party stalwarts on the 32-member cabinet which was sworn in on Tuesday.
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina sprang surprises as she named Tuesday a 32-strong team, dropping almost her party’s entire policymaking presidium from the cabinet. In a move termed revolutionary by some in a 1000-strong audience at the Bangabhaban swearing-in, Hasina appointed Dipu Moni foreign minister, and another street veteran Sahara Khatun home minister.
In Dhaka, armed assailants shot dead Nazrul Islam, 32, Ward 56 president of Swechchhasebak Dal, at his Bijoynagar office on Monday. Witnesses said four armed men in two motorbikes reached Aqib Bumper House at Bijoyagar at around 3:30pm and shot Nazrul point blank.
The European Union applauded as 2009 brought a smooth emergence of democracy back on the rails in Bangladesh after the parliamentary elections and called on the country’s political parties to seek new solutions to the challenges of its governance.
Lobbying on for positions in govt, authorities
Leaders of the Awami League and its allies are in a hectic lobbying for positions in the new government as all is set for the AL chief, Sheikh Hasina, to be sworn in as prime minister tomorrow.
Despite deployment of a huge number of law enforcers, post-polls violence continued in different parts of the country on Sunday, raising the death toll to 10 and the number of injured people to 270.
AFP: Bangladesh's main opposition party, which was routed in the recent general elections, said it would boycott Sunday's scheduled swearing-in of its members of the parliament.
