DUSHANBE, February 5, Asia-Plus - A book titled “Vakiloni Khalq” (People’s Deputies) containing brief information about 4,276 members of Tajikistan’s parliament of all 15 convocations over the past 70 years (from 1938 up to now) was recently brought out in Dushanbe.

Muhtaram Hotamov, head of secretariat of the Majlisi Namoyandagon (Tajikistan’s lower chamber of parliament) and Mirodasen Khudoiyev, aide to the Majlisi Namoyandgon speaker, have prepared the book for publication. 

The book, having circulation of a 2,000, was published at the printing-house Devashtich in Dushanbe.       

The first parliamentarian elections in Tajikistan were held in 1938 and 282 people’s deputies were elected to the Soveti Oli (Supreme Council) of the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic of the first convocation (1938-1947).