The decision was taken at an emergency meeting of the Awami League Central Working Committee (ALCWC) with Leader of the Opposition and AL President Sheikh Hasina in the chair.

The party high-ups gave in to the huge pressure from its lawmakers for returning to parliament. "The MPs criticised party policymakers' position on keeping the AL away from parliament. They asked the meeting to decide whether they should join JS or resign from it," said a senior AL leader.

"We have decided to join parliament to protest against misdeeds of the government," AL General Secretary Abdul Jalil told reporters after the meeting.

The oust-government agitation on the street apart, the AL lawmakers would rally in the House against spiralling prices of essentials, deteriorating law and order, grenade attacks on leader of the opposition and 'government manoeuvred verdict' in the Jail Killing Case.

The AL deputies will also raise their voice against 'corruption' and 'misdeeds' of the BNP-Jamaat-led coalition government through participating in the session, Jalil said.

The main opposition walked out of the House on September 14 on the Speaker's refusal to discuss the August 21 grenade attack on the AL rally postponing House businesses. The AL then boycotted rest of the session days.

On Tuesday, the AL lawmakers joined for the first time the parliamentary standing committee meetings on different ministries after about a year of their formation.