ALCWC meet today: Process complete for Latif`s removal

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Staff Reporter :The Cabinet Division has completed all preparations to issue gazette notification on the removal of Post, Telecommunications and Information Technology Minister Abdul Latif Siddiqui from the cabinet for his derogatory remarks about hajj and Tablig Jamaat, the cabinet secretary said on Saturday.”We’re ready in this regard. Now, we’re waiting for the signature of the President,” M Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan told reporters at the Secretariat.On receiving the file of the minister from the Prime Minister’s Office, the Cabinet Division would send a summary to the President for his signature, Bhuiyan said.He added: “Once the President signs the file, a gazette will be published immediately.”The Awami League Central Working Committee (ALCWC) will sit in a meeting in the city today (Sunday) where it is likely to take disciplinary action against party presidium member Abdul Latif Siddiqui for derogatory remarks on Hajj and Tablig Jamaat.

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