Staff correspondent :

The 24th session of 11th parliament was prorogued on Thursday after nine sittings as the session started on Sept 3.

The Jatiya Sangsad’s fourth session of the current 2023 year was convened aiming to endorse some important bills which were particularly important for the government before holding the next general elections scheduled on January in next year.

Before reading out the prorogation order of the president, Deputy Speaker Shamsul Huq Tuku presented an address of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman while attending an inauguration of the Supreme Court of an Independent Bangladesh in Dhaka on December 18, 1972.

The speech of Bangabandhu was collected from the Bangladesh Betar as the duration of the address was 18 minutes 32 seconds.

Jatiya Sangsad Leader Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina delivered her valedictory speech at the closing of the session. Leader of the Opposition Begum Raushan Ershad also spoke.

Three parliamentary standing committees were reconstructed during the session.

Notices of thirty-five treasury bills were received and seventeen parliamentary standing committees’ reports also were placed during the session.

Along with the legal procedure, a total of 23 important notices were adopted under section 71.

A total of 25 questions where 11 were available for the prime minister’s question and answer session and 739 for other ministers were received and 526 were answered by the ministers of the different ministries during the session.

Before reading out the prorogation order, the deputy speaker thanked all MPs of treasury and opposition benches.

Deputy Speaker Shamsul Huq Tuku also thanked all MPs, officials, journalists, law enforcers and fire service and civil defense personnel for their services for smoothly holding the parliament session.