ALCWC to decide Latif\\\'s fate Oct 12

FE Team | Published: October 05, 2014 00:00:00 | Updated: November 30, 2026 06:01:00

A meeting of the Awami League Central Working Committee (ALCWC) on October 12 will decide the fate of its presidium member Abdul Latif Siddique, now under fire for his derogatory remarks on hajj, Tablig Jamaat and the Prime Minister's son, report agencies.
The meeting will begin at 6.30 pm at Prime Minister's official residence Ganobhaban with Awami League President Sheikh Hasina in the chair, according to a press release issued on Saturday.
Party sources said the meeting would decide the fate of embattled AL presidium member Abdul Latif Siddique.
At a press conference on Friday, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said Latif would be removed from the cabinet.
On the party steps against Latif, the Awami League President said: "The (AL) working committee will take a decision on Latif Siddique's fate as the AL believes in practising democracy as per its constitution."
On September 28, Posts and Telecommunications Minister Abdul Latif Siddiqui at a views-exchange meeting with expatriates from Tangail in the USA said, "During hajj, so much manpower is wasted.
Over 20 lakh people have gone to Saudi Arabia to perform hajj. They've no work, no production and they only cause deduction."
"Some 20 lakh Tablig Jamaat people get together annually who don't do any work except halting traffic movement across the country," he added.
About Prime Minister's son, Latif Siddique also said, "Who's Joy? He's no one of Bangladesh government. He can give advice but it's the government that takes decisions."
According to the bdnews24.com, Abdul Latif Siddique has reportedly returned to New York from Mexico.
Government officials have been tightlipped on the matter, but several expatriate Bangladeshis confirmed that they had seen Siddique going to the City's Queens area in a cab.
A 'Tangail Samiti' member said his arrival was not being publicised as various organisations of expatriates had been agitating against Siddique's remarks.
An expatriate Bangladeshi said Siddique, accused in a number of cases at home for hurting religious sentiment, landed at John F Kennedy Airport on Friday morning local time.
No activists of the ruling Awami League turned up to greet him, neither any government vehicles were there to pick him.
He hired a cab and went to Queens, several expatriates said. When approached, Bangladesh's permanent UN envoy AKA Momen said he had no knowledge of Siddique's visit as he was not on the prime minister's entourage.