New cabinet likely Jan 10

The gazette notification of the results of the 11th parliamentary elections held on Sunday was published on Tuesday and the lawmakers-elect might be sworn in on Thursday while the new cabinet was likely to take oath of office on January 10.
Election Commission joint secretary Forhad Hossain told New Age Tuesday evening that Bangladesh Government Press on the day published the official results of 298 constituencies in the official gazette.
He said that the gazette notification would be available today.
Article 39(4) of the Representation of the People Order 1972 stipulates, ‘The commission shall publish in the official Gazette the name of the returned candidate.’
The new cabinet is likely to take oath of office on January 10, on the home coming day of the country’s founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
The ‘grand alliance’ led by the ruling Awami League won 288 seats, in the 11th parliamentary elections Sunday.
Talking to reporters, AL general secretary and road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader said, ‘The new cabinet to be led by prime minister Sheikh Hasina is likely to take oath of office on January 10, the home coming day of the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.’
‘The gazette notification on results of the Bangladesh elections will be published tomorrow or day after tomorrow and after that the members of the parliament will be sworn in and the leader of the house will be elected,’ Obaidul Quader said at Dhanmondi 3 political office of the AL president on Tuesday. 
Information minister Hasanul Haq Inu, also the Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal faction president, at a dialogue with the Bangladesh Secretariat Reporters’ Forum at the secretariat, said that the lawmakers-elect were likely to sworn in on Thursday.
Replying to query, he said that continuing the development activities initiated by the government of Sheikh Hasina and maintaining peace and stability would be the major challenges of the AL-led government in its third consecutive term.
He said that Ershad-led Jatiya Party, which got 22 seats, would continue as the opposition in parliament and might also remain in the cabinet, as the party was doing in the existing 10th parliament and the cabinet. 
Inu said that it would not create any crisis as regards to the role of the opposition in parliament although the AL and its allies already got 288 seats in the elections to 299 of the 300 parliamentary constituencies. 
The new government would work for continuation of the development works taken by the government and also take programmes for implementing the election pledges made by the Awami League in the election manifesto, Obaidul Quader said.
A mass upsurge like that of 1969 was created in favour of Awami League before this election and the people extended their supports to the Awami League voting the party to power again, he said.
Replying to a query, Quader called the seven candidates of the main opposition alliance Jatiya Oikya Front, including the Bangladesh nationalist Party, who won the elections to take oath as lawmakers considering the interests of the voters who elected them.
BNP got five seats and its ally Gono Forum only two seats in the December 30 polls. 
The Awami League will hold a grand rally at Suharwardy Udyan to mark historic March 7, Quader added.

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