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JS bodies want more clout

Draft law readied to make their summons obliging

Rashidul Hasan
In an unprecedented move, a parliamentary standing committee yesterday prepared a legislative proposal (draft law) to compel any person summoned by a House body to appear before it, and produce documents it asks for.
The standing committee on law, justice and parliamentary affairs ministry drafted the proposal to enforce constitutional provisions to ensure parliament's effective role in enactment oflaw.
"It is unprecedented in the history of Bangladesh parliament that we have drafted a law which will ensure the presence of any one summoned by a parliamentary committee," said Suranjit
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Sengupta, chairman of the standing committee.
Talking to journalists after a meeting of the House body at the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban yesterday, he said there is no law at present to compel persons summoned by House bodies to turn up before them and produce required documments. So, they have nothing to do if their summonses are ignored, said Suranjit, a ruling Awami League lawmaker.
Meanwhile, the parliamentary standing committee on public undertaking had earlier summoned former chief of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Hasan Mashhud Chowdhury to appear before it to hear his view on the antigraft drive and other activities of the ACC during the past caretaker government's tenure. But the committee could do nothing except informing
the speaker when (Mashhud) did not turn up.
Suranjit said the constitution provides that a parliamentary body can compel anyone to be present before it if it wants.
The legislative proposal will be finalised at the committee's next meeting, and sent to the law ministry, he said.
No government in the last three and a half decades moved to enact law to make the House bodies effective although a parliament's success largely depends on their proper functioning.
The committee chief also said they discussed the issue of applying the relevant provisions empowering the standing committees to examine draft bills before those are placed in parliament. All the successive governments in the past did not follow the provisions, he added.