Prime Minister Tarique Rahman has proposed forming a 10-member committee comprising lawmakers from both ruling and opposition parties to work collectively in the national interest to ?nd a ‘reasonable solution’ to the ongoing energy crisis in the country. The Prime Minister placed the proposal in the Jatiya Sangsad (JS) recently, saying that the committee will include an equal number of ?ve members each from the government and the opposition sides. Speaker Ha?z Uddin Ahmad, Bir Bikram, was in the chair.
the Prime Minister announced names of ?ve treasury bench lawmakers and called upon the opposition to provide ?ve names from their side. The Leader of the House said that the proposed committee would be headed by Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Iqbal Hassan Mahmood. Four other treasury bench lawmakers are: State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Aninda Islam Amit, ABM Ashraf Uddin Nizan (Laxmipur-4), Moinul Islam Khan Shanto (Manikganj-2) and Miah Nuruddin Ahmad Apu (Shariatpur-3).