Fourth session of parliament will sit on November 9

President Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has summoned the fourth session of the 13th National Parliament on November 9 next. The session will start at the National Parliament Building at 3:30pm on that day. This is the first parliament session summoned by him after assuming the responsibility of the president.

This information was informed in a press release of the National Parliament Secretariat on Wednesday. It has been said in the press release issued from the Law Making Branch-1 of the Parliament Secretariat that the president has summoned the fourth session of the 13th National Parliament at the parliament chamber of the National Parliament Building in Sher-e-Bangla Nagar of Dhaka at 3:30pm on November 9 by the power given in Clause (1) of Article 72 of the constitution.

Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir took the oath as the 23rd president of Bangladesh on August 21 last. He was elected as the president by the votes of the members of parliament the day before this.

Before assuming the responsibility of the president the then Acting President Hafiz Uddin Ahmed had summoned the third session of the 13th National Parliament on August 11. That session which started on August 27 continued till September 10. A total of nine meetings were held in this.

On the last day of the third session Speaker Hafiz Uddin Ahmed read out the order of the end of the session given by President Mirza Fakhrul. Six bills were introduced and six bills were passed in that session. Besides 35 parliamentary committees were formed and reconstituted and one special committee was reconstituted.

The members of parliament submitted 144 questions for asking questions to the prime minister in the session. Among them Prime Minister Tarique Rahman answered 15. 2 thousand 676 questions were submitted for the ministers of various ministries. Among them the answers of 1 thousand 678 were given.

Earlier the second or budget session of the 13th National Parliament had started on June 7. That session which ended on July 15 continued for 26 working days. 10 government bills were passed in this. The budget proposal of the 2026-27 fiscal year was presented on June 11 and it was passed on June 30.

The first session of the 13th National Parliament had started on March 12. 94 bills were passed in 25 working days in that session which ended on April 30.

According to Clause (1) of Article 72 of the constitution the president summons the session of the parliament on the written advice of the prime minister and determines the time and place of the first meeting of the session. According to the constitution a break of more than 60 days cannot be kept between the end of one session and the first meeting of the next session except in special situations. The fourth session is scheduled to start on November 9 after 60 days of the end of the third session.