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Waiting for party signal for return Latif tells BBC

Staff Correspondent
Latif Siddique, who was removed from the cabinet on Sunday, last night said he was waiting for the party signal for his return to the country.
"I am waiting to hear from the party whether I should return or not," he told the BBC Bangla in a telephone interview from Kolkata.
Replying to a query, he said he did not contact the Awami League leadership in this regard. "I want them [AL] to make the decision about me."
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Latif, who was also expelled from the AL Presidium following his com-ments on hajj and Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), said, "I want to return home because I worked for the independence and development of the country.
"But I do not understand what to do now. I am in a deep mental crisis thinking whether my leader [PM Sheikh Hasina] feels more embarrassed if I enter the country."
He, however, said he would come home at the first opportunity and appear before the court.
Talking to The Daily Star on Sunday, Latif said he wanted to return to the country within four to five days.
Replying to a query by the BBC last night, he said he was worried whether his party and his leader would be harmed further. "But I am not worried about myself."
Asked where he would stay if he
could not return home in the near future, he said he was yet to decide on it.
"I have come to Kolkata, as 1 cannot live in Europe and America. I want to live on the soil [of Bangladeshi," said Latif, who was posts and telecommunications minister.
Asked if he got any signal from the Indian government to stay in Kolkata, he said he did not want to discuss it. "Time will say."
On removal from the cabinet and party posts, he said he took it positively as the party chief made the decision at the party forum through discussions. "It is not a crime to drop me."
He said he accepted the decision. "Majority's decision is my decision."
Asked if he thought injustice was done to him, Latif said, "No, no. I regret that I put my party and my leader in an embarrassing situation and caused her [Hasina] pain."
Other than this, he said, he had no
compunction.
Asked whether his situation would be like that of Taslima Nasrin and Daud Haider, who could not return home for decades, he said, "No...My speech has been distorted. If one listens to my full speech, one will see what I have done is an academic discussion."
He said it made him angry that no one bothered to listen to his full speech, which he gave at a discussion in New York on September 28.
He said parts of the speech were distorted. "I spoke for one and a half hours. I own my full speech. If I am hanged for this, I will accept it."
Latif also criticised his younger brother, Kader Siddique, for offering an apology on his behalf on Saturday.
"I did not give him the responsibility to offer an apology," Latif said, adding that Kader was his political opponent.