Awami League President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday instructed her party leaders to hold its national council in time and prepare a draft on the overall activities to this end.
The Awami League chief came up with the instruction during her first visit to her Dhanmondi political office since assuming office through the January-5 polls.
Sheikh Hasina arrived at the office around 4:30 pm and held discussions with leaders of the party on various matters relating to organisational activities for more than an hour.
AL general secretary and LGRD and Cooperatives Minister Syed Ashraful Islam, its presidium members Agriculture Minister Matia Chowdhury, Shahara Khatun and Nuh-ul Alam Lenin, Prime Minister’s Adviser HT Imam, Mahbubul Alam Hanif, Barrister Fazle Noor Tapas were present.
In her discussion with the leaders, Hasina stressed the need for holding the party council in time and asked them to prepare a draft on the overall activities to this end.
Briefing reporters at the PM’s Dhanmondi political office, AL general secretary Syed Ashraful Islam said the party chief mainly enquired about the organisational activities, and the ongoing councils of the party’s district committees across the country.
“She asked how many of the councils have been held and how many are going to be held,” he said adding that the AL chief laid emphasis on finishing all the councils as soon as possible.
The AL general secretary said councils in many districts have already been held and district committees formed, while the rest would be constituted accordingly.
He noted that senior leaders of the organisation are visiting the remaining districts to hold conferences there.
Syed Ashraful Islam said holding councils at district, upazila and union parishad levels and formatting fresh committees is going on, and these are being done as per directives of the party president.
He added that the central council of AL will be held in due time.
Responding to a query, Ashraf said there is no doubt about the implementation of the verdicts of war criminals trial by the government.
When his attention was drawn to a recent remark by BNP senior vice chairman Tarique Rahman about Bangabandhu, he said there is no scope to frame a dead person in any case.
“Nowhere in the world you’ll find a dead person indicted in a case,” he said adding that no one should take into account the remarks of an immature person having no sense of proportion.
Source: UNB
