BNP lawmaker Harun resigns from parliament
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) lawmaker Harunur Rashid has resigned from eleventh national parliament.
Harun submitted his resignation paper to speaker Shireen Sharmin Chowdhury on Thursday afternoon.
Earlier, five BNP lawmakers on 11 December resigned from the house as per an announcement made on 10 December form the party’s divisional mass rally in Dhaka. All seven BNP lawmakers announced their resignation from that rally.
Bogura-6 constituency’s member of parliament GM Siraz, Bogura-4 lawmaker Md Mosharraf Hossain, Chapainawabganj-2 lawmaker Md Aminul Islam, Thakurgaon-3 lawmaker Jahidur Rahman and reserved woman seat’s lawmaker Rumeen Farhana lobbed their resignation on 11 December.
The remaining two lawmakers could not submit their resignation papers as Harunur Rashid of Chapainawabganj-2 was abroad and Brahmanbaria-2 lawmaker Abdur Sattar was ill. But resignation letters on their behalf were submitted that day.
Speaker Shirin Sharmin told journalists that day Harun sent his resignation letter through e-mail. He will have to resend his resignation letter again as the signature he put was scanned.
The parliament secretariat on 11 December issued a gazette notification declaring six constituencies vacant.
By-election in the five seats vacated due to the resignation would be held on 1 February and the schedule to vote in the reserved seat-50 would be fixed later.