Dhaka, Oct. 24 -- A proposal to create the post of vice-president has come up in discussions on how to form a caretaker government.

Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed, who chairs the parliamentary special committee on constitutional amendment, says some participants have floated the idea.

Speaking after the committee's ninth meeting on Saturday, Salahuddin said that if an upper house is formed and outlives the term of parliament, the caretaker government's formation process could be built into it.

In that case, one proposal is for the vice-president to serve as the upper house speaker.

The alternative, he said, is for a speaker elected with the consent of both the opposition and the ruling party to head the caretaker government.

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