PM joins business advisory committee’s meeting ahead of 4th session

Prime Minister and Leader of the House Tarique Rahman on Sunday joined the fifth meeting of the Parliamentary Business Advisory Committee ahead of the fourth session of the 13th Jatiya Sangsad.

The meeting was held at 4pm at the Cabinet Room of the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban, with Speaker Hafiz Uddin Ahmad, Bir Bikram, who is also the chairman of the committee, in the chair.

Committee members –Leader of the Opposition Md Shafiqur Rahman, Finance Minister Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury, Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed, Deputy Speaker Barrister Kayser Kamal, Chief Whip Md. Nurul Islam, Law Minister Md. Asaduzzaman, BNP standing committee member Goyaswar Chandra Roy, Jamaat leader ATM Azharul Islam and Opposition Chief Whip Md. Nahid Islam also attended the meeting.

The fourth session of the current 13th Parliament is scheduled to begin at 3:30pm on Monday (November 9), 60 days after the prorogation of the previous session.

On 14 October last, President Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir summoned the session, exercising the powers vested in him under Article 72(1) of the Constitution.

According to Article 72(1), a period exceeding 60 days cannot intervene between the end of one session and the first sitting of Parliament in the next session.

The third session was prorogued on 10 September after only nine sittings, while the second session, also known as the budget session, ended on 15 July after 27 working days.

During the budget session, Parliament passed the Tk9,38,000-crore national budget for the 2026-27 fiscal year, the first budget under the current BNP government.

The first session of the 13th Parliament began on March 12 following the general election held on 12 February, 2026.

During its inaugural session, Parliament passed 94 bills, including 91 bills related to ordinances promulgated during the interim government’s tenure, and formed several parliamentary committees.