Form judicial body to probe Latif\\\'s remarks: BNP

BNP senior leader Lt Gen (retd) Mahbubur Rahman has demanded a judicial investigation to find out whether minister Abdul Latif Siddiqui made the anti-Islamic comments at anybody’s instigation. ‘Latif Siddiqui will be dropped from the cabinet. We’ve heard he’ll also be removed from the party. I think a judicial probe body must be formed to unearth at whose instigation the minister made the offensive remarks,’ he said. Mahbub, also a BNP standing committee member, made the remarks while addressing a programme in the city on Friday. On September 28, Latif Siddiqui at a reception in New York arranged by expatriates from Tangail said he is against Hajj and Tablig Jamaat. The BNP leader said Latif Siddiqui seriously hurt the religious sentiment of Muslims by making anti-Islamic comments, according to a news agency.