PM works past midnight to pick BNP's reserved seat MPs

Prime Minister and BNP Chairman Tarique Rahman worked well past midnight on Sunday at the Gulshan party office to select the ruling party's women lawmakers for reserved seats.

At the time, he was accompanied by BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, Standing Committee members, other senior leaders, and PM's Additional Press Secretary Atiqur Rahman Rumon, among others.

The party's activities on interviewing, evaluating and finalising women candidates for the reserved seats have been going on since Saturday afternoon at the party chairman's office in Gulshan.

Tarique has been taking interviews of BNP's women candidates from the divisions of Dhaka, Chattogram, Cumilla, Sylhet and Mymensingh.