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JS sits amid opposition boycott

Staff Correspondent
Parliament went into third session yesterday with the BNP-led opposition lawmakers continuing abstention from the House.
Speaker Abdul Hamid in his inaugural speech urged the opposition lawmakers to join the House and assured them of due facilities.
However, the opposition lawmakers, abstaining from the House since the last budget session, might not join the current session as BNP policymakers are against joining parliament, hinted a number of party leaders yesterday.
Prior to the session's start, the Business Advisory Committee at a meeting at the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban decided to continue the session till September 15 with seven working days.
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Meanwhile, the House adopted an obituary reference on the deaths of former Filipino president Corazon Aquino, ex-finance minister M Saifur Rahman and US Senator Edward Kennedy.
Parliament also mourned the deaths of former ministers Shafiqul Gani Swapan and MA Sattar, ex-lawmaker Abu Abbas, language movement veteran Gaziul Haq, poet Alauddin Al Azad, former naval commando Mojaharullah, and former president of Mahila Parishad Hena Das.
Speaker Abdul Hamid placed the obituary motion at the session's beginning and the House adopted it unanimously. Copies of the obituary resolution will be sent to the families of the deceased. PROBE REPORT TO BE DISCUSSED
Speaker Abdul Hamid told the House that a discussion on the all-party parliamentary probe report would be held in the House in time.
“It (probe report! has become a property of the House and a discussion on it will be held in time,” the speaker said replying to a lawmaker's demand for holding the discussion.
Taking the floor on point of order, Jatiya Party lawmaker Mujib-ul-Haque Chunnu, also member of the all-party probe body investigating corruption in the parliament secretariat in last seven years, said the committee has already placed its report before the House.
"You [speaker! gave assurance in the last session that the discussion will be held in
the third session. But the issue was not included in today’s order of the day,” he said.
The House body that investigated irregularities during the tenure of former speaker Jamiruddin Sircar placed the probe report in parliament on July9.
It asked the House to divest Sircar of his MP status and recover around Tk 2.50 crore that Sircar, his deputy and the then chief whip took illegally against medical bills, additional fuel allowances and other facilities.
It also recommended taking legal actions against Sircar, the then deputy speaker Akhtar Hamid Siddiqui and the then chief whip Khandaker Delwar Hossain.
Taking the floor on a point of order. Workers Party lawmaker Rashed Khan Menon urged the government to uphold national interests in the oil and gas sector. He also demanded cancellation of agreements with multinational companies for exploring mineral resources.
He also made a call for holding discussion on the matter in parliament.
Meanwhile, independent lawmaker Fazlul Azim, also member of the parliamentary team that visited Tipaimukh dam site in India, demanded that the team's report be placed in the House.
He said the parliamentary team has submitted its report to the prime minister's office and the speaker's office on its return from Tipaimukh.
'I he speaker however said he was not aware of such a report.