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Bangladesh's Parliament convened connected Thursday (March 12, 2026) for the archetypal clip since a deadly 2024 uprising plunged the state into governmental turmoil and following elections past month.
The authorities of Prime Minister Tarique Rahman, person of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), took implicit after February 12 elections from the interim medication that had led the state of 170 cardinal radical since August 2024.
"After much than a decennary and a fractional of fascist and subservient rule, the activities of Parliament are opening contiguous with representatives elected by the people," Mr. Rahman told Parliament.
"The BNP wants to physique a prosperous, harmless and antiauthoritarian country," helium added, calling connected each lawmakers, immoderate their governmental opinions, to enactment together.
Mr. Rahman blamed the toppled authorities of Sheikh Hasina and her Awami League party for undermining the erstwhile Parliament.
Sheikh Hasina, 78, who has been sentenced successful absentia to decease for crimes against humanity, is successful self-imposed exile successful India.
"The fallen dictatorship made Parliament dysfunctional, alternatively of making it the centre of each nationalist activities," Mr. Rahman said, promising it would alteration nether his watch.
"We volition marque Parliament the centre of each debates and arguments aimed astatine resolving the country's problems."
They see tackling a sluggish economy, restoring stableness and reviving maturation aft months of turmoil that rattled capitalist assurance and strained authorities finances.
The world's 2nd largest garment exporter, heavy babelike connected fossil substance imports, has besides been deed hard by an lipid terms spike caused by the warfare successful the Middle East. Mr. Rahman's entreaty for unity is simply a bid to heal rifts successful a state polarised by years of bitter rivalry.
A caller speaker, Hafiz Uddin Ahmad, and his Deputy, Kayser Kamal, were elected to office. Both are members of the BNP. The Parliament gathering was looted during the August 2024 uprising against Ms. Hasina, but has since been repaired. The BNP-led confederation secured 212 seats, portion the BNP unsocial won 209 seats.
The person of the Opposition is Shafiqur Rahman, who heads the Jamaat-e-Islami-led confederation with 76 seats, with Jamaat unsocial holding 68.
