Cabinet Meeting
President's draft speech for JS discussed
The cabinet yesterday discussed in detail the draft of the president's speech to be delivered on day one of the year's first Jatiya Sangsad session on January 25.
The weekly cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina at the Cabinet Division of the Bangladesh Secretariat also formed a five-member committee headed by PM's Adviser HT Imam to finalise the speech's draft.
The committee includes PM's Adviser Dr Mashiur Rahman, principal secretary to the prime ministers' office and education and finance secretaries.
PM's Press Secretary Abul Kalam Azad briefed newsmen after the meeting.
In his address, the president is expected to focus the successes achieved in various sectors during the last one-year rule of Awami League-led grand alliance government.
Meeting sources said the committee has been asked to complete reviewing the speech through inclusion, exclusion or bringing of changes in its language.
At the meeting, some of the ministers said success and activities of many ministries during the last three months have not been incorporated in the president's speech. The PM then instructed the secretaries to do so in coordination with the ministers, added sources.
She also instructed the committee to make a summary of the speech between 2,000 and 2,500 words so that the president could read it within 20 to 25 minutes. The entire speech would be tabled in the Jatiya Sangsad.
The final draft would be placed in the next cabinet meeting where the PM would put a final touch and approve the speech.
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