Opposition Leader and Jamaat-e-Islami amir Dr Shafiqur Rahman corrected a naming error made by Chief Whip Md Nurul Islam while he presented a proposal to reconstitute the parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Accounts. The incident occurred on Thursday during the third sitting of the 13th National Parliament.

As Nurul Islam read the names of members nominated to the committee, he noticed an apparent mismatch in the names and information and paused, saying there had possibly been an error. When he resumed reading after a correction, Dr Shafiqur Rahman was given the microphone and suggested that Hafiz Ibrahim may have been referred to as Hafiz Uddin.

The chief whip acknowledged the mistake and clarified that the fifth member listed was Md Hafiz Ibrahim, member for Bhola-2 constituency 116. He said he had made another mistake while attempting to correct the earlier one, while the remaining names were correct. Deputy Speaker Barrister Kaiser Kamal praised the opposition leader’s attentiveness, saying he listened carefully at every moment.