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Latif`s JS membership declared vacant

Md Mahfuzur Rahman || risingbd.com

Published: 14:28, 3 September 2015   Update: 15:18, 26 July 2020
Latif`s JS membership declared vacant

Former Posts, Telecommunications and ICT Minister Abdul Latif Siddique

Parliament Correspondent: After submission of his resignation paper, the parliament membership of former ICT minister Abdul Latif Siddique has been declared vacant on Thursday.

Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury came up with the announcement in the seventh session of the incumbent parliament, this evening.

Earlier on September 1, the former Posts, Telecommunications and ICT Minister Abdul Latif Siddique has resigned from his parliamentary post.

He announced his resignation after joining the on-going seventh parliamentary session on the day.

The Awami League leader who was also sacked from his own party, submitted his resignation letter to Jatiya Sangsad Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury .

Earlier on June 29, Abdul Latif Siddique has been released on bail.

On November 25, 2014, a Dhaka court sent the former Minister to jail in the case and he was returned from New York on November 23.

Earlier, after his return from New York, Latif Siddique was taken to Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court (CMM) after he surrendered to Dhanmondi Police Station.

Abdul Latif Siddique was expelled from the cabinet and his own party Awami League for his derogatory comments against hajj, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina`s son Sajeeb Wazed Joy, Tablighi Jamaat and expatiate Bangladeshis in New York.

At a program organised by Awami League Tangail unit in the USA on September 28, Latif Siddique, who was in New York as part of the PM`s entourage in the 69th United Nations General Assembly, said he was against hajj and Tablighi Jamaat more than he detested the Jamaat-e-Islami.

“Hajj is waste of manpower,” he said. “Those who perform hajj do not have any productivity. They deduct from the economy, spend a lot of money abroad.”

Those in Tablighi Jamaat do not have anything else to do but block roads during a rally, he commented.

A video clip of him talking spread over the internet kicking up a storm, but the remarks about the hajj in particular touched some raw nerves.

risingbd/ DHAKA/ Sept 3, 2015/ NR/ Mahfuz

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