Sohel Taj Resigns From Parliament

BANGLADESH NEWS

Former state minister for home Tanjim Ahmad Sohel Taj relinquished his membership of parliament on Monday.

Abu Kawsar, assistant personal secretary of Sohel Taj, submitted the resignation letter to the speaker’s office around 10.25 in the morning.

Md Shamim, an official of the speaker’s office, received the letter from the APS.

This is for the first time in the country’s history a ruling party lawmaker resigned from his post.

In the letter, Taj said, “My constituency is Gazipur-4 (Kapasia). I am submitting my resignation letter to you (speaker) under section 67 (2) of Bangladesh Constitution.”

His resignation came almost three years after he resigned from the post of state minister for home.

Taj, the only son of the country's first prime minister Tajuddin Ahmad, resigned as the state minister for home on May 31, 2009, five months after the ruling Awami League-led grand alliance government assumed office.

He sent his resignation letter to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on June 1 according to the Constitution.

But no gazette notification was issued on his resignation.

 Taj recently demanded that the government issues a gazette notification in this regard, as he thinks his dignity and image of the government as well as the prime minister have been tarnished for not doing so.