BNP’s Siraj takes oath as MP
Published : 11 Jul 2019, 18:44
Golam Mohammad Sirajul Islam, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate who won the Bogura-6 by-polls, took oath on Thursday.
Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury administered the oath at 3:30pm at the Parliament.
On Jun 24, GM Siraj secured victory in the Bogura-6 by-election by a big margin of votes. Siraj bagged 89,782 votes while his nearest contestant, Awami League nominated candidate T Zaman Niketa, got 32,297 votes in the by-election.
The constituency was declared vacant as BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, who was elected from the parliamentary seat in the December 30 general election, did not take oath as MP within the 90 days from the date of the first meeting of the Jatiya Sangsad.
Source: dailysun