Parliament reconvenes for the 14th session of the ninth on Tuesday with the largest party in opposition, the BNP opting to stay off the proceedings again.
The session is scheduled to start at 5pm with Speaker Abdul Hamid in the chair.
However, the Business Advisory Committee of Parliament will hold a meeting at 4pm to finalise the Monsoon session's duration and programme.
The 13th session, which was the budget session, ended on July 8. According to the Constitution, a new session must begin within 60 days after a session ends.
The BNP-led opposition alliance has been absent for the last 29 business days.
Opposition Chief Whip Zainul Abdin Farroque on Monday also made his party's position clear on not joining the session.
Farroque claimed at a discussion that the government had rendered Parliament ineffective. "No notice from the opposition is accepted (during the parliament session). So we will not join the session tomorrow (Tuesday)."
He also gave a condition to bring them back to Parliament. "We will return to Parliament only after it is confirmed that the bill for a non-party election-time government would be placed in the session."
After an absence of 83 days, the last time the opposition parties attended Parliament was on Mar 18. Before that, the BNP had joined Parliament on Mar 24 last year.
Of the 317 business days in the last 13 sessions, the opposition attended only 55 business days.
Recently elected BNP MP from Tangail-5 constituency Mahmudul Hasan is waiting to join his first session, having taken oath on Aug 8.
Even if the opposition stays away, Parliament might just heat up over the High Court verdict that Speaker Abdul Hamid's ruling that Justice AHM Shamsuddin Choudhury violated the Constitution by making 'derogatory comment' about Parliament was non-existent in the eye of law and 'has no legal basis'.
The government on Monday appealed against the High Court verdict
Hamid had given the ruling rather reluctantly in Parliament on June 18 as MPs demanded steps after Justice Choudhury criticised the chief of the legislature. They threatened to invoke the constitutional provision to impeach sitting judges.
Ruling Awami League MPs Suranjit Sengupta and Tofail Ahmed have been deriding the court's ruling. Suranjit foresees heated response from MPs during the session.
Along with Suranjit and Tofail, ruling party allies Workers Party President Rashed Khan Menon and JaSaD President Hasanul Haque Inu also reacted harshly in Parliament over Justice Choudhury's remarks.
Parliament Secretariat officials have said that until now 17 notices are waiting to be placed in the 14th session, of which 16 are now being evaluated and the remainder is waiting to be placed.
The new session of the ninth Parliament is also going to see introduction of a separate gallery exclusively for the children for the first time so that they can watch the proceedings live and learn about its rules and regulations.
The session is scheduled to start at 5pm with Speaker Abdul Hamid in the chair.
However, the Business Advisory Committee of Parliament will hold a meeting at 4pm to finalise the Monsoon session's duration and programme.
The 13th session, which was the budget session, ended on July 8. According to the Constitution, a new session must begin within 60 days after a session ends.
The BNP-led opposition alliance has been absent for the last 29 business days.
Opposition Chief Whip Zainul Abdin Farroque on Monday also made his party's position clear on not joining the session.
Farroque claimed at a discussion that the government had rendered Parliament ineffective. "No notice from the opposition is accepted (during the parliament session). So we will not join the session tomorrow (Tuesday)."
He also gave a condition to bring them back to Parliament. "We will return to Parliament only after it is confirmed that the bill for a non-party election-time government would be placed in the session."
After an absence of 83 days, the last time the opposition parties attended Parliament was on Mar 18. Before that, the BNP had joined Parliament on Mar 24 last year.
Of the 317 business days in the last 13 sessions, the opposition attended only 55 business days.
Recently elected BNP MP from Tangail-5 constituency Mahmudul Hasan is waiting to join his first session, having taken oath on Aug 8.
Even if the opposition stays away, Parliament might just heat up over the High Court verdict that Speaker Abdul Hamid's ruling that Justice AHM Shamsuddin Choudhury violated the Constitution by making 'derogatory comment' about Parliament was non-existent in the eye of law and 'has no legal basis'.
The government on Monday appealed against the High Court verdict
Hamid had given the ruling rather reluctantly in Parliament on June 18 as MPs demanded steps after Justice Choudhury criticised the chief of the legislature. They threatened to invoke the constitutional provision to impeach sitting judges.
Ruling Awami League MPs Suranjit Sengupta and Tofail Ahmed have been deriding the court's ruling. Suranjit foresees heated response from MPs during the session.
Along with Suranjit and Tofail, ruling party allies Workers Party President Rashed Khan Menon and JaSaD President Hasanul Haque Inu also reacted harshly in Parliament over Justice Choudhury's remarks.
Parliament Secretariat officials have said that until now 17 notices are waiting to be placed in the 14th session, of which 16 are now being evaluated and the remainder is waiting to be placed.
The new session of the ninth Parliament is also going to see introduction of a separate gallery exclusively for the children for the first time so that they can watch the proceedings live and learn about its rules and regulations.
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