The oath-taking ceremony for the newly elected MPs for the reserved women’s seats of the 13th National Parliament will take place tomorrow.

The event will be held at the oath-taking room of Jatiya Sangsad at 9:00pm, the parliament secretariat said in a release.

The Election Commission on April 30 published a gazette declaring 49 lawmakers elected unopposed to the reserved women’s seats in the 13th Parliament.

The gazette listed 36 MPs from the BNP-led alliance, 12 from the Jamaat-led alliance, and one independent.

BNP alliance MPs are: Selima Rahman, Shirin Sultana, Rasheda Begum Hira, Rehana Akter Ranu, Newaz Halima Arly, Mosammat Farida Yasmin, Bilkis Islam, Shakila Farzana, Helen Jerin Khan, Nilufar Chowdhury Moni, Nipun Roy Chowdhury, Zeeba Amina Khan, Mahmuda Habiba, Sabira Sultana, Sunsila Jabrin, Sanjida Islam Tulee, Sultana Ahmed, Fahmida Haque, Anna Minj, Subarna Shikdar, Shamim Ara Begum Swapna, Shammi Akter, Ferdousi Ahmed, Bithika Binte Hossain, Suraiya Jerin, Mansura Akter, Jahrat Adib Chowdhury, Momtaz Alam, Fahima Nasrin, Arifa Sultana, Sanjida Yasmin, Shawkat Ara Akter, Madhabi Marma, Selina Sultana, Nadia Pathan Papon, and Rezeka Sultana.

Jamaat-e-Islami’s MPs are: Nurunnisa Siddika, Marzia Begum, Sabikun Nahar Munni, Mardia Momtaz, Nazmun Nahar Nilu, Mahfuza Hannan, Sajeda Samad, Shamsunnahar Begum, and Rokeya Begum (mother of July martyr Jabir Ibrahim).

Other MPs from the 11-party alliance partners are: Mahmuda Alam Mitu (NCP), Tasmia Pradhan (Jagpa), and Mahbuba Hakim (Bangladesh Khelafat Majlis).

The independent MP is Sultana Jasmin.

A total of 53 aspirants submitted nomination papers, but four were rejected during scrutiny -- three independents and Monira Sharmin of NCP under the Jamaat-led alliance.

Although May 12 was set as the polling date, voting was not required as each seat had only one candidate, leading to uncontested elections as in previous years.

Meanwhile, the EC today declared the nomination paper of Nusrat Tabassum, joint convener of the National Citizen Party (NCP), valid for a reserved women’s seat in the 13th Parliament under the Jamaat-e-Islami-led 11-party alliance.

On April 8, the EC declared the election schedule for the reserved women’s seats.

The deadline for submitting nomination papers for the 50 reserved women’s seats was April 21.

On that day, Nusrat submitted her papers to the EC’s dispatch branch at 4:19pm -- 19 minutes past the deadline.

Consequently, the returning officer refused to accept her submission.

Nusrat later moved to the High Court. On April 27, the court directed the EC to accept her nomination paper.

On April 29, the commission issued a circular stating that Nusrat’s nomination paper was accepted and the scrutiny process was scheduled for today.