Finance Minister AMA Muhith says he may reconsider his plan to retire from politics if the prime minister and the Awami League want.
Speaking to the media at his offices on Monday (Jun 4), he said that this will be his last budget and he does not plan to run in the upcoming election.
“But if the party and the prime minster ask, then...,” he said hinting a roll back.
Muhith is set to present the budget proposals for the upcoming fiscal in Parliament on Thursday (Jun 7). It will
Asked whether he wants to place budget more times than late M Saifur Rahman of the BNP, the octogenarian minister made it clear that he want to retire from politics.
“If Prime Minster Sheikh Hasina and the party want then I will have no choice”, he added.
Muhith is set to present the budget proposal for the straight tenth year on Thursday. It’s, however, his twelfth as he had given the budget twice in the 1980s during military dictator
M Saifur Rahman, who served as the finance minister for the BNP, presented the budget for twelve times with maximum five times in a row.