New Bangladeshi lawmakers to take oath tomorrow

The 290 newly elected Bangladeshi lawmakers will be sworn in tomorrow after Awami League bagged a three-fourths majority in the controversial polls, marred by deadly clashes, low turnout and an opposition boycott.
The ceremony will start at 10am (local time) in Parliament, Joynal Abedin, Public Relations chief of the Parliament Secretariat was quoted as saying by BD News portal.
The announcement came shortly after a gazette was published today notifying the MPs-elect in the 10th parliamentary elections.
Pranab Chakraborty, additional secretary at the Parliament Secretariat also said that the newly elected lawmakers will be sworn in tomorrow.
The gazette contains the list of 290 who won in the election, the Daily Star quoted Election Commission sources as saying.

On January 5, the election was held in 143 seats with 153 MP aspirants elected earlier uncontested.

The Election Commission (EC) did not announce results in eight constituencies because voting in many of the polling centres in those seats were suspended due to violence.
The names of 290 out of the 292 MPs-elect were sent for gazette notification.
The EC served show cause notices to two ruling Awami League MP-elects for alleged violation of electoral code.
With 127 seats it won uncontested earlier, Awami League was victorious in 232 out of total 300 constituencies.
Meanwhile, Jatiya Party (JP) won 13 seats while Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JSD) won two and Workers Party (WP) won four seats.

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), led by former prime minister Khaleda Zia, boycotted the polls after her arch-rival Sheikh Hasina rejected the opposition's demand for a neutral caretaker regime for election oversight.
The opposition had demanded postponement of the polls. Political violence during strikes enforced by the opposition since November have left over 160 people dead.
Hasina has asserted that her re-election in the much-disputed polls was legitimate and appealed to her arch-rival, Zia, to shun "terrorism" and severe ties with the fundamentalist Jamaat to strike a deal on the next elections.