The two-day special session of the 11th National Parliament on the ‘Mujib Year’ marking the birth centenary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman has been suspended due to the COVID-19 (coronravirus) outbreak.

“The Parliament’s special session on the birth centenary of Bangabandhu has been postponed,” President’s Press Secretary M Joynal Abedin told BSS on Saturday (Mar 21). The two-day special session was scheduled to begin on Sunday (Mar 22).

President M Abdul Hamid was scheduled to deliver his speech in parliament on Bangabandhu in the special session, which could be the seventh session of the current parliament.

Earlier, the President had called the session exercising the power bestowed upon him as per Clause (1) of Article 72 of the Constitution.

So far, the Bangladesh National Parliament went into special sittings twice – on Jan 31 and on Jun 18 in 1974 – which were addressed by former Yugoslav President Marshal Josip Broz Tito and then Indian president VV Giri.