Planning Adviser Wahiduddin Mahmud on Saturday said Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus did not say he will resign.
"The Chief Adviser is staying with us. He did not say he will resign. Other advisers are also staying. We have come to perform the responsibilities those were given on us," he told reporters.
Wahiduddin Mahmud said this after an unscheduled meeting of the advisers following the weekly ECNEC at NEC conference room at Agargaon.
Chief Adviser and all members of the advisory council attended the meeting.
Responding to a question, Wahiduddin Mahmud said, “the responsibilities given to us are big. We cannot leave the responsibilities.”
“We are discharging our responsibilities, and obstacles are being created while we are doing our tasks,” he said. The planning adviser said, “We have identified the obstacles. Now we will solve those and perform the responsibilities entrusted to us," he said.
Environment, Forest and Climate Change Adviser Syada Rizwana Hasan told reporters that the issue of reforms was also discussed in the meeting of the advisers.
UNB adds: Planning Adviser Dr Wahiduddin Mahmud on Saturday affirmed that Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus will remain in the interim government, which is committed to completing its assigned responsibilities.
“The Chief Adviser is staying with us. He has not said he would resign. Other advisers are also staying. We have been given responsibilities, and we are here to carry them out,” he said.
Amid ongoing political unrest, members of the interim government’s advisory council held a closed-door meeting on Saturday, following the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) meeting at the NEC Conference room.
Planning Adviser Wahiduddin Mahmud spoke to the media after the meeting.
The unscheduled meeting began at 12:20pm in the NEC conference room at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar in the capital and concluded around 2:20pm.
The meeting comes amid heightened political tension and growing speculation over the stability and continuity of the interim government.
