Cabinet members during yesterday’s meeting talked about Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu and Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister Rashed Khan Menon as both performed hajj this year.
A minister who attended the meeting said the cabinet members laughed when the discussion began.
“A minister said Inu and Menon would be called Al-hajj Comrades upon their return. When he said this, a number of ministers and state ministers supported him and burst into laughter.”
Both the ministers are supposed to return on October 15.
Workers Party led by Menon and JSD led by Inu are allies of the Awami League-led 14-party alliance government. There were discussions in the social media when the two left for Saudi Arabia to perform hajj.
A picture of the two ministers wearing hajj clothes known as Ihram spread rapidly on Facebook.