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All MPs to get car, driver, fixed fuel, other boodle
[Bangla Daily Star] The Parliament Secretariat Commission yesterday decided to provide lawmakers with a vehicle, a driver and a certain amount of fuel allowance each as it is against reintroducing the provision that allows MPs to import duty-free cars.
Cheez, do these guys think they're British?
The last caretaker government scrapped the provision through an ordinance in the wake of widespread scandal and irregularities in importing duty-free luxurious cars. But the new parliament did not ratify the ordinance, which increased hopes among many lawmakers about getting back the privilege.

"No duty-free cars from now," Speaker Abdul Hamid, chief of the Parliament Secretariat Commission, told reporters at his office after a meeting of the commission.

"Lawmakers will get vehicles from next July and all of them will get vehicles in the next financial year...Committee chiefs will get priority in this regard," the speaker said. "We will seek supplementary budget for the Parliament Secretariat for purchasing the vehicles."

As per the commission's decision, chiefs of different parliamentary committees can use the Jatiya Sangsad's flag on their vehicles. Each committee chief will also get a gunman for security. The commission also decided that the speaker's vehicle would carry the flag of the Jatiya Sangsad.
Posted by: Fred 2009-06-04
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