Staff Reporter
Awami League (AL) general secretary Abdul Jalil yesterday said the cabinet of the coming AL government would not be consist of 40 to 50 members and it will be blended with the veterans, experience and youths merit.
Jalil also informed that the party leaders and supporters want to see veteran Zillur Rahman president of the AL-led coalition government.
Jalil made this comment while talking to reporters at his Camellia Concord residence in the capital.
“We like Zillur Rahman to be president and the AL president Sheikh Hasina will be the prime minister,” Jalil said.
The AL presidium member Zillur Rahman was elected from Kishoreganj-6 constituency in the December 29 parliamentary polls when the AL bagged 230 seats out of 299, with its allies securing a further 32 seats.
Zillur took the charge of acting AL president, while Hasina was abroad and in jail on graft and murder charges during the last Caretaker Government tenure.
A lawyer, Zillur was also the party’s general secretary for two terms with independence leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, who led the country’s liberation war in 1971 as the AL president, and with his daughter, Hasina.
His wife Ivy Rahman, a senior AL leader, died in a grenade attack on Hasina’s rally on August 21, 2004 in Bangabandhu Avenue in the capital along with 23 others.
With the publication of election the results as gazette on Thursday, the AL expected that the new AL-led government will be formed by Jan. 7.
The Jatiya Sangsad Secretariat secretary Ashfaque Hamid yesterday said the newly-elected lawmakers are scheduled to be formally sworn in on Saturday and Sunday.
Hamid said all preparations for administering the oath in the ‘oath’ chamber of parliament building have been completed.
Courtesy: nation.ittefaq.com
