Resolve intra-party feuds before JS polls: Hasina

Awami League president and prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday called on the grassroots leaders to resolve intra-party feuds before the next general elections and seek votes for ‘boat’.
While addressing the second phase of the special extended meeting of the party, Hasina said, ‘You must resolve the internal feuds of the party’s union committees soon and be united to work for the candidate who will get party nomination. 
‘No political force can defeat us in any election if Awami League remains united,’ Hasina said.
She also instructed the grassroots leaders to go door to door and start seeking votes for the party symbol, for the next general election expected to be held in December this year.
‘Our government has taken huge development
programmes for villages in the budget of current fiscal year and we want to ensure the urban facilities in the rural areas,’ Hasina said.
President and general secretaries of the each union level committee of the party and party’s union council chairmen of Chittagong, Sylhet, Barisal and Rajshahi division attended the meeting.
A total of more than eight thousand grassroots and party’s central executive committee members attended the meeting. 
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina urged her leaders and workers to make the party stronger by increasing its popularity at the grassroots level as no party other than Awami League would be able to change the lot of people.
‘Awami League is the only party in the country which can change the lot of the people. So, the party must be stronger, enhancing its popularity among the rural people,’ she told AL grassroots leaders, seeking support to build Bangladesh as per the dream of founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
She urged the party leaders to project to people the development projects and programs taken by the government over the years.
She also sought their support for effective functioning of the community clinics and school feeding programmes to allow people to get a better life.
General secretary of the party Oabaidul Quader in his welcome address called on the grassroots leaders to remain united to work for the party-nominated candidates in the next general election.
‘We shall take immediate action and expel them who will be rival candidates against the party-nominated candidate,’ Quader, also road transport and bridges minster, warned.
Seven grassroots leaders from four divisions also spoke at the meeting and most of them urged that the party central body should take initiatives to reduce internal feuds at grassroots across the country.
Hemanta Talukder, leader of Mohanpur Union Parishad committee of Sunamganj, said that before any election internal feuds in Awami League increased.
‘We the leaders became our own enemy as some leaders become rival candidates,’ Hemanta said.
Abdul Quddus Munshi, leader of Sadallapur union in Pabna, said that there were internal feuds in the Sadar upazila committee of the party.
He called on the party’s central body to take steps to resolve the feuds. 
Awami League held first phase of the extended meeting at Ganabhaban on June 23, where district and upazila leaders of the party were present.
The third phase of the meeting will be held on July 7 with the participation of grassroots leaders of the rest four divisions. 

News Courtesy: www.newagebd.net