In the capacity of India region member, Madhya Pradesh Assembly Speaker Sitasharan Sharma participated in the executive committee meeting of International Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (ICPA), on November 3 and 4 at Dhaka in Bangladesh.
Speakers from other countries including Australia, Cameroon, Britain, Africa and others participated in the meeting held in the chairmanship of Bangladesh parliament Speaker Shirin Choudhary.
later, on November 5, 6 and 7, in the general council meeting, process for election of executive committee’s chairman was completed. later, a dinner was hosted where Bangladesh Prime Minister Shekh Hasina, speakers from different countries, Indian lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan, General Secretary of lok Sabha Anoop Mishra and Madhya Pradesh assembly Principal Secretary Awdhesh Pratap Singh remained present.
Notably, ICPA is an international organization. This association comprises speakers from 180 countries and helps in good governance and development of high values of democracy.
State assembly Speaker Sitasharan Sharma, Deputy Speaker Rajendra Kumar Singh and Principal Secretary Awdhesh pratap Singh are in Dhaka to attend the meeting and would return to Bhopal from Dhaka via Kolkata on Thursday at 10 pm.