A number of names have surfaced as finance minister of the new government set to be formed in a couple of days, led by chairman of Bangladesh Nationalists Party (BNP) Tarique Rahman.
The ministry of finance, the second-most-powerful government organ after the office of prime minister, is usually manned by people having vast experience on economic and trade issues alongside influence in the political parties they belong to.
According to people familiar with the developments following the party's landslide victory in the post-uprising polls, the BNP high-ups are now preparing a list of cabinet members to be sworn in no later than February 18th.
Sources say the names of Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury, a former commerce minister and a member of the BNP standing committee, Abdul Moyeen Khan, a former planning minister also party's standing-committee member, and newly elected Member of Parliament from Habiganj-1 constituency Dr Reza Kibria have come up as possible nominee for the chair of finance minister.
Moreover, the names of present finance adviser Dr Salehuddin Ahmed and pro-BNP economist Dr Mahbub Ullah are also in consideration by the BNP high-ups to be the economic pointsman of the up-and-coming government from technocrat quota.
However, none of the BNP top officials contacted by The Financial Express would name any specific name for the post of finance minister-very important in the current context of an onerous task of pulling the economy out of a sea of problems.
Contacted, AAM Saleh (Saleh Shibli), press secretary to BNP chairman Tarique Rahman, said only the party head may have the concrete knowledge as to who is going to be given the responsibility of finance minister in his cabinet.
"I did not hear any name of members of the next cabinet," he said.
syful-islam@outlook.com
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