Sarkar Explains Broad Programme
East Bengal's new Chief Minister Mr. Abu Hussain Sarkar told presssmen here yesterday that he would enlarge the skeleton cabinet soon.
He announced that release of political prisoners will be given first priority and added that his Ministry would make efforts to implement the 21 point mandate of the United Front as far as practicable during the tenure of his office.
Mr. Sarkar was talking to the pressmen in the drawing room immediately after the swearing in ceremony was over.
In his Ministry Mr. Sarkar will include no representative of the dissident group of Awami League which has disobeyed Mr. Fazlul Huq's leadership unless they rejoin the United Front party. He said “let them first come to our party and then we shall consider the position. But for the Minority he expressed willingness to include two members, one from the scheduled caste and one from the rest. But he was not certain as to the time he will be taking for the expansion of the cabinet. The Chief Minister said, his Ministry would make all out efforts to increase the standard of living of the people of East Bengal. He observed that the problem of enhancing the lamentable low standard of living of the masses was one of great magnitude and that his cabinet will approach it in a planned and systematic moreover.
