PM to take decision on size of polls-time govt: Anisul

Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Anisul Huq on Tuesday said though the matter of polls-time government is not anywhere in the constitution, the Prime Minister herself will take a decision on the size of the polls-time government, reports BSS.

"I have told you earlier, I am telling you again, the honourable Prime Minister will take a decision on how many ministers she would need in her cabinet during the polls. If she needs everyone, all the minister would remain there, and if she thinks she would bring down the size of the cabinet, it is completely her decision. The constitution has given her the authority," he said.

The minister said these while talking to newsmen after coming out of his meeting with a delegation of International Labour Organization (ILO) at the Secretariat.

The members of the ILO delegation are country director Tuomo Poutiainen, program manager Neeran Ramjuthan, project technical officer Chayanich Thamparipattra, senior program officer Md Saidul Islam and program officer Chowdhury Albab Kadir.

"We have brought some amendments to the labour act; ILO had something to say about the amendments. They told us their points, we have listened to them and some matters were resolved today and gave some clarifications as well. We would sit again here on October 22 and priority areas presented by them (ILO) today would be discussed on that day," Anisul added.

"Their priority areas were like power of calling strike and increasing the authority of labour courts. The main thing is that I don't think that the range of their area of concern is that big; we believe we would be able to resolve it," he further said.