Last Updated on March 11, 2026 9:23 pm by INDIAN AWAAZ
Zakir Hossain from Dhaka
Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami has temporarily declined a verbal proposal from the ruling Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) to nominate a deputy speaker from the opposition in the 13th National Parliament.
Speaking to journalists after a meeting of the opposition parliamentary committee at the National Parliament on Tuesday, party Secretary General Mia Golam Porwar said the party did not seek the deputy speaker’s post in this manner.
“We did not ask for the deputy speaker position in this way,” Porwar said, adding that the party would decide after discussions on the July Charter in parliament.
Earlier on March 2, Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed said the government wanted to start implementing the political agreement reached in the July National Charter while respecting the consensus achieved.
He said the ruling party had verbally proposed to the main opposition that it nominate a deputy speaker who could be elected on the same day as the speaker in parliament.