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Second deputy speaker from opposition Speaker

says constitution to be amended

Staff Correspondent
Newly elected Speaker Abdul Hamid said yesterday the government will soon place a bill in parliament to amend the constitution to create a second post of deputy speaker, who will be elected from the opposition.
BNP, the major opposition party in the House, however said they will not propose anyone for the post that will require amending the constitution.
Senior BNP lawmaker Salauddin Quader Chowdhury told The Daily Star yesterday that they would not accept the post of deputy speaker (to be created). "BNP is not in such a distressed condition that it will have to take donation like VGD (vulnerable group development)," he said. Jafty Star
Talking to journalists after placing wreaths at the portrait of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at Bangabandhu Memorial Museum at Dhanmondi in the city. Hamid said if the opposition agrees they will take measures to elect a deputy speaker from the opposition as soon as possible.
Referring to what the opposition is saying -- deputy speaker one and deputy speaker two- he said it will not be so. Both the deputy speakers will have the same status and similar jurisdictions. And it will be specified clearly how they will function, he asserted.
Hamid, who was elected speaker on Sunday for a second term, said the opposition should have proposed a candidate for the post of deputy speaker just as the treasury bench named him and Shawkat Ali for speaker and deputy speaker posts. "Had they (opposition) acted like that, the treasury bench would have withdrawn its candidate for deputy speaker."
He pointed out that there
was a constitutional obligation to elect speaker and deputy speaker at Sunday's inaugural sitting of parliament Since the constitution provides for only one post of deputy speaker, there was no scope to think of two such posts at that time, he added.
Deputy Speaker Shawkat Ali also placed wreaths at the portrait of Bangabandhu while Chief Whip Abdus Shahid accompanied them.
Shawkat stressed effective functioning of parliament.
PREVIOUS SPEAKERS
Shah Abdul Hamid of Awami League (10.04.1972 to 01.05.72), Muhammadullah of AL (2.5.1972 to 26.1.74), Abdul Malek Ukil of the same party (27.1.74 to 5.11.75), Mirza Golam Hafiz of BNP, (2.4.79 to 20-3-'82), Shamsul Huda Chowdhury of Jatiya Party, 10.7.’86 -5.4.'91), Abdur Rahman Biswas. BNP, 5.4.'91 -25.9.'91), Sheikh Razzak Ali, BNP, (12.10 '91-14 7.'96), Humayun Rashid Chowdhury, AL, (14.7.1996 to 10.7.2001), Abdul Hamid, AL, (12.7.2001 to 28.10.2001) and Jamiruddin Sircar, BNP, 28.10.2001 to 25.01.2009)