Newly elected lawmakers of Bangladesh took the parliamentary oath on Thursday after an election marred with violence and political confrontation between political groups.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and parliament members from ruling party Awami League and its allies were sworn in by the outgoing speaker of the Parliament, a parliamentary spokesman told a foreign news agency.
Only a few MPs could not take the oath in time. They’ll be sworn in later today, “the spokesman said.
Sheikh Hasina will be elected the leader of the parliament later on Thursday after the swearing-in, her spokesman told the news agencies.
“She will then form a new government, which is expected to take oath by Sunday,” he added.
Awami League secured 232 seats out of 300 in the parliamentary polls on Sunday which were boycotted by the opposition and continued amid blood and violence across the country with 26 people getting killed.
The opposition, led by former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia’s Bangladesh Nationalist Party called the weekend vote a farce and called for a nonstop blockade of roads, rail and waterways from Wednesday. She has demanded the polls be declared null and void and that new elections be held under a neutral government headed by a caretaker leader.
Bangladesh’s parliament swears in
