The oath-taking ceremony for the newly-elected MPs for the reserved women’s seats in the 13th Jatiya Sangsad will be held today.

The ceremony will take place at the oath-taking room of Jatiya Sangsad at 9:00pm, the parliament secretariat said in a release yesterday.

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

According to the gazette, 36 MPs were elected from the BNP-led alliance, 12 from the Jamaat-led alliance, and one as an independent.

The 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.

The other MPs from the 11-party alliance partners are Mahmuda Alam Mitu of NCP, Tasmia Pradhan of Jagpa, and Mahbuba Hakim of Bangladesh Khelafat Majlis.

The independent MP is Sultana Jasmin.

A total of 53 aspirants submitted nomination papers, but four were rejected during scrutiny.

On April 8, the EC announced 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.