President Zillur Rahman prorogued the 10th session of parliament Thursday afternoon.
It was the briefest session of parliament with only four working days.
The curtain fell abruptly on the 10th session of the 9th parliament, as speaker Abdul Hamid read out the president's prorogation order.
The session witnessed heated discussions over the failures of the Awami League led government particularly in the road communication and power sector and in reining essential prices.
The communications minister Abul Hossain came under fire from the ruling alliance lawmakers, in absence of the opposition, for the dilapidated roads and highways causing disruption of inter district communication and deaths of a number of school children and two famous media personalities.
Lawmakers demanded his removal.
The finance minister and the shipping minister4 also came under fire in the session.
Hamid called upon the opposition to return to the House in the next session.
'We had expected that the opposition would join parliament to make it vibrant by raising constructive criticisms,' he said.
'I expect them to join the next session,' he said.
The speaker described the just concluded session, though very short in terms of working days, as very significant in terms of performance with the members raising important issues of interests.
The brief session was convened after an interval of 60 days to meet the constitutional obligation.
The session passed two bills, while 11 others came up for discussion and 19 new bills were placed before it.
Of 146 notices the members gave under Rule 71 of the Rules of Procedure, six were accepted and the speaker allowed discussion on three.
Besides, 30 other notices were not accepted but the speakers allowed the movers to speak for two minutes under rule 71 of the Rules of Procedure.
The prime minister replied to 13, out of 54, questions of lawmakers in her question time.
Other ministers replied to only 170, out of 670,926, questions of lawmakers in the session.
Source : New Age
