Sunday, October 12, 2014

AL set to axe Latif Siddique:Daily Sun

  The Awami League Central Working Committee (ALCWC) is set to decide the fate of its embattled presidium member Abdul Latif Siddique today for his derogatory remarks on the Prophet (PBUH), hajj, and Tablig Jamaat. Sources said Siddique may be dropped from the presidium. The minister could even lose his primary membership of ruling party. The ALCWC meeting is scheduled to be held at Prime Minister
Sheikh Hasina’s official residence Ganabhaban at 6:30pm. Meanwhile, Cabinet Secretary Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan Saturday told reporters that they had completed all preparations to issue a gazette notification on the removal of Latif Siddique from the cabinet for his tirade against the Prophet (PBUH), hajj and Tablig Jamaat. “We are expecting for a file about the removal of the minister from the Prime Minister’s Office. On receiving the file, the Cabinet Division will send a summary to the Bangabhaban. Once the President signs the file, a gazette will be published,” Bhuiyan told reporters at Secretariat. Sources at the government said the President is expected to sign the file on Sunday. Party insiders said AL president Sheikh Hasina at the ALCWC meeting may issue a strong note of warning to her ministers, lawmakers, leaders and activists so that they refrain from excessive talks and misdeeds. They fear that the party along with the government may face serious problems if its ministers and leaders continue to make irresponsible statements. Apart from deciding Siddique’s fate in the party, the meeting may fix ways to face the major opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s threat of waging movement for a mid term polls. Apart from Siddique issues, the meeting will finalise its pre-announced district tour schedules. Some 10-organising teams have been supposed to make trips across the country to gear up party activities. The meeting may ask the organizing secretaries to complete the long-over due council sessions of the districts by December and associate and affiliated bodies by January next year. The ALCWC may also take an important decision to keep the party’s Dhaka city unit undivided. According to Article 58 (2) of the constitution of Bangladesh: “The Prime Minister may at any time request a Minister to resign, and if such Minister fails to comply with the request, may advise the President to terminate the appointment of such Minister”

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