Shahabuddin Chuppu, a retired decide, has been sworn in as the brand new president of Bangladesh for a five-yr term, changing Abdul Hamid.
Parliamentary Speaker Shirin Sharmin Choudhury on Monday administered the oath of workplace to Shahabuddin, the twenty second president of the South Asian republic, on the Bangabhaban presidential palace in Dhaka.
The occasion turned into aired stay via way of means of state-run Bangladesh Television and different non-public broadcasters.
Chuppu, the nominee of the ruling Awami League (AL) celebration, turned into elected unopposed on February thirteen as no different candidate submitted papers to contest the race.
With 302 members, the AL celebration has the bulk withinside the 350-seat countrywide parliament, and no different celebration had the numbers to appoint a presidential candidate.
After taking the oath, the brand new president turned into congratulated via way of means of the outgoing president, Hamid – the most effective man or woman in Bangladesh to preserve the presidential submit for 10 years in consecutive terms.
According to the country`s constitution, the presidential election have to be held 60 to ninety days earlier than the expiry of every five-yr term.
Born in 1949 withinside the northern Bangladeshi metropolis of Pabna, Chuppu retired as a decide in 2006.
A freedom fighter withinside the country`s independence conflict in 1971, he additionally served as commissioner of the country`s Anti-Corruption Commission from 2011 to 2016.