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PM to answer to MPs' queries on Tuesdays

By Nurul Kabir
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will answer to the questions from Parliament Members on the floor of Jatiya Sangsad every Tuesday.
It was decided at a meeting of the Business Advisory committee of Jatiya Sangsad yesterday evening.
According to the decision, on Tuesdays the first 15 minutes of the 60-minute traditional question-answer session would be reserved for the Prime Minister. a ruling party MP who attended the meeting told The Daily Star.
"Hie decision is likely to be implemented during the end of the current session of parliament. meeting sources said. However, an influenUal members of the ruling party who attended the advisory body meeting told this correspondent: "We will try our best to introduce the Prime Minister's hour during
the end of the current session, but if any procedural complicacy arises we shall implement it in the next session."
The current session would be adjourned on January 30 and it would resume again on February 16 next, after a recess for Eid. it was also decided at the meeting of the advisory body comprising members of both the Treasury and Opposition benches.
Some opposition members present at the meeting suggested that the decision on the Prime Minister's question-answer session should be incorporated into the Rules of Procedure of Jatiya Sangsad. But the Treasury bench members opted for creating a convention of Prime Minister's hour' in the light of the House of Commons of Eng-
When contacted over tele phone. Prime Minister's Parliamentary Affairs Adviser Suranjit Sengupta told The Daily Star that it was better to incorporate the idea into the J S Rules of Procedure.
He said that the convention of the country's parliamentary practice was going by the Rules of Procedure. "On top of all. if we incorporate the decision into the Rules of Procedure, it would be a binding on the successive governments."
In another development of ,the meeting, the advisory body was divided over the issue of a general discussion on the recently signed Ganges water sharing treaty between Bangladesh and India.
The Treasury bench members of the committee including Prime Minister Shaikh Hasina told their Opposition counterparts in the committee that the government had already met the constitutional obligation by producing the 'international treaty' in the House.
According lo meeting sources, they further qrgued there was no provision that-a effscussion must take place on the content of such agreements.
The Opposition members claimed at the meeting that they had been given an impression that the Treasury bench would allow the Parliament Members to have a discussion on the agreement in the House. A BNP lawmaker, who attended the meeting, told this correspondent that his party would continue to press for a general discussion on the Farakka agreement.
Presided over by Speaker Humayun Rashid Chowdhury, the meeting was attended by: Leader of the House Sheikh Hasina. Deputy Leader of the House Zillur Rahman. Deputy Speaker Abdul Hamid. Deputy Leader of the Opposition AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury. Opposition Chief Whip Khandaker Delwar Hossain, and MPs Sai-fur Rahman and Rahmat Ali.
Whip Abdus Shahid and Parliament Secretary Abul Hashem were also present.