Ershad will be happy if another minister made from JP
Sunday, 27 December 2009
As rumours are rife about cabinet reshuffle, former President and Jatiya Party (JP) Chairman Hussein Mohammed Ershad said Saturday JP would be happy if another minister from his party was inducted, reports UNB.
He made the remark to reporters after his hour-long meeting with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her official residence Jamuna Saturday evening, as the journalists wanted to know about his expectation from such a change in the one-year-old council of ministers of the Awami League-led Grand Alliance.
Ershad, however, said they wouldn't be unhappy if his expectation didn't come true.
JP has one minister -- Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister GM Quader -- in the Hasina cabinet. There is none in the cabinet from two other major parties of the Grand Alliance -- Workers Party and JSD. They are also reportedly aspirants, while names of several left-out bigwigs from the AL are also being speculated for induction.
Ershad further said who would be ministers and who not was totally under the Prime Minister's jurisdiction.
He also made it clear that Jatiya Party did not make any formal proposal yet regarding making another minister from the JP, also a former ruling party.
About government's performance in the first year in office the JP chairman said increasing food production was the biggest success of the present government since it assumed power on January 6.
He made the remark to reporters after his hour-long meeting with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her official residence Jamuna Saturday evening, as the journalists wanted to know about his expectation from such a change in the one-year-old council of ministers of the Awami League-led Grand Alliance.
Ershad, however, said they wouldn't be unhappy if his expectation didn't come true.
JP has one minister -- Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister GM Quader -- in the Hasina cabinet. There is none in the cabinet from two other major parties of the Grand Alliance -- Workers Party and JSD. They are also reportedly aspirants, while names of several left-out bigwigs from the AL are also being speculated for induction.
Ershad further said who would be ministers and who not was totally under the Prime Minister's jurisdiction.
He also made it clear that Jatiya Party did not make any formal proposal yet regarding making another minister from the JP, also a former ruling party.
About government's performance in the first year in office the JP chairman said increasing food production was the biggest success of the present government since it assumed power on January 6.