Process to remove Latif Siddiqui finished: Cabinet Secy

All preparations to remove Telecoms Minister Abdul Latif Siddiqui from the Cabinet have been completed. Cabinet Secretary M Musharraf Hossain Bhuiyan told reporters on Saturday that the process of removal of Latif Siddiqui was on. ‘A file on this matter will come from the Prime Minister’s Office. We will make a summary of that and send it to the President,’ Bhuiyan told the journalists at the Secretariat in the morning. ‘A gazette notification on dropping of telecommunications minister Siddiqui from the Cabinet will be issued after the President signs it.’ Asked how much time the entire procedure would take, Bhuiyan said: ‘We have done much bigger work in a short timeframe. The gazette notification will be issued only after the President signs.’ Latif Siddiqui, also the ruling Awami League’s presidium member, drew widespread condemnation following his derogatory remarks on Holy Hajj and Tabligh Jamaat that he had made at a programme in New York on Sept 28, according to bdnews24.com.