AL council aims to create new leadership: Hasina
Awami League President Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said her party is not holding the national council only to maintain the party discipline but to create new leadership.
The organisational activities will be geared up and strengthened across the country through creating the new leadership, the prime minister said.
She said this during her one-minute speech after inaugurating the ruling Awami League’s national council at the historic Suhrawardy Uddyan in the morning.
Hasina, also the prime minister of the country, inaugurated the council around 11:30am.
AL presidium members Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury, Matia Chowdhury, Syed Ashraful Islam and Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim accompanied the prime minister on the dais.
Nearly 20,000 leaders and workers of Awami League from across the country had thronged the council venue much before the party chief inaugurated it.
Moreover, the councillors and delegates joined the council.
The party sources earlier hinted that AL has a little prospect of bringing changes in the top brass.Suhrawardy Uddyan turned into a festive look with colourful banners and festoons of the party and its top leaders including Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
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The councillors are supposed to elect leaders, including a treasurer, 13 members of presidium, the highest policy-making body of the party; 31 secretaries, including three joint general secretaries and seven organising secretaries, according to the party charter. And as a political party registered with the Representation of the People Order, it must have elected committees. But signs are there that today it will be a repetition of the last council, held in July 2009, which re-elected Sheikh Hasina president and empowered her to pick other office bearers.
Syed Ashraful Islam was unopposed to be elected as general secretary. Moreover, the council of Dhaka city unit on Thursday made it almost clear that Sheikh Hasina will have the power to decide on all the positions in the central body. Arranged after a gap of 10 years, the city unit council has authorised Hasina to form the party’s city committee. Even an election commission was not constituted as required by the party charter. Party sources said Hasina might announce the city committee along with the new central committee after the national council.
It is also possible that the national council, which is around five months behind schedule, will allow the present central committee to continue until the next council in December 2015.
PR @rrajowan Source : Daily Star
