Newly elected Member of Parliament from Thakurgaon-1, Mirza Faisal Amin, and reserved-seat MP Eliza Zaman are scheduled to take oath on Tuesday (November 3).

Mohammad Rashed Mizan, Assistant Director (Public Relations) of the Parliament Secretariat, confirmed the information on Monday afternoon (November 2).

According to a statement from the Parliament Secretariat, the oath-taking ceremony will be held at 12 noon on Tuesday at the Speaker’s office in the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban.

Mirza Faisal Amin, the BNP-nominated candidate, was unofficially declared elected in the by-election for Thakurgaon-1 on October 29, securing 227,917 votes with the party’s ‘Sheaf of Paddy’ symbol.

Earlier, in the 13th parliamentary election held on February 12, former BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir was elected MP from the constituency. The Election Commission later declared the seat vacant after he was elected as the country’s 23rd president. Subsequently, a by-election was held in the constituency.

Meanwhile, Eliza Zaman was elected as a Member of Parliament in the by-election for a vacant reserved women’s seat in the 13th Parliament. She was declared elected unopposed on Monday after the deadline for withdrawal of nomination papers expired.

The seat fell vacant after Ferdousi Ahmed Mishti, a reserved-seat MP from the ruling BNP, resigned on October 1.