The Prime Minister has fired Awami League’s Joint General Secretary Mahbub-ul Alam Hanif as her Special Assistant.
The Ministry of Public Administration issued a circular on Sunday evening relieving Hanif of his duties.
Ministry officials said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina gave the directive to issue his dismissal order.
It means the politician from Kushtia will wield no power having lost the PMO job.
Earlier
in the evening, Senior Secretary to the Ministry of Public
Administration Abdus Sobhan Sikdar told bdnews24.com Hanif was going to
be fired.
"I am supposed to receive a file regarding that. But I haven't got it yet. It'll take some time more," Sikdar had said.
Hanif had earlier dismissed media report about him being asked to resign as “nothing but a mere rumour”.
A
report published in a national daily on Oct 12 claimed the Prime
Minister during a view-exchange programme with grassroots leaders
advised her special assistant to resign and visit an electoral area to
find out the public opinion there.