49 MPs from reserved women’s seats to take oath today

The newly elected members of parliament from the reserved women’s seats in the 13th Jatiya Sangsad will take oath on Sunday (May 3).

The swearing-in ceremony is scheduled to be held at 9:00pm in the oath room on Level-1 of the east block of the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban.

According to a gazette published by the Election Commission of Bangladesh on April 30, a total of 49 candidates were elected unopposed to the reserved seats.

Of them, 36 lawmakers are from the ruling Bangladesh Nationalist Party and its alliance, 12 from Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami and its allies, while one was elected as an independent.

The oath-taking will formally complete the composition of the reserved women’s seats in the current parliament, officials said.

Meanwhile, the Election Commission has also validated the nomination of another candidate from the Jamaat alliance for the same category of seats, according to official sources.