Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader on Wednesday said that party president Sheikh Hasina’s son Sajeeb Wajed Joy would be the future leader of the party and he would join the central committee according to his wish.
At a briefing after the maiden meeting of the new secretaries of the ruling party at its president’s Dhanmondi office he said that in the latest council session in October 22-23, councillors wanted to see on the central committee.
‘We cannot put any pressure on him [Sajeeb] to join in the party’s leadership,’ Obaidul Quader added, replying to a query if Sajeeb would be inducted into the new central working committee.
‘Joy does not want to get bad reputations like Tareque Rahman joining politics right now,’ he said. He announced programmes on Jail Killing Day to be observed by the party on November 3 marking the killing of four top AL leaders – Syed Nazrul Islam, Tajuddin Ahmed, Mansur Ali and AHM Quamruzzaman – in Dhaka Central Jail on November 3, 2975.
The programmes were finalised at the meeting of the secretaries with Obaidul Quader in the chair.
The programmes included hoisting the national flag and the party flag at half-mast at AL central office at 6:00am, placing wreaths at the portrait of the country’s founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in front of the Bangabandhu Memorial Museum at Dhanmondi, placing wreaths on the graves of Syed Nazrul Islam, Tajuddin Ahmed and Mansur Ali at Banani graveyard, holding a discussion meeting at Krishibid Institute auditorium at 3:00pm on November 3 with party president Sheikh Hasina, also the prime minister, in the chair. Joint general secretaries Mahbubul Alam Hanif, Dipu Moni, Jahangir Kabir Nanak and Abdur Rahman and secretaries Habibur Rahman Siraj, Ashim Kumar Ukil, Afzal Husain and Sujit Roy Nandi, among others, attended the meeting.
Source: New Age
