AL to be tough on rebel UZ polls candidates, followers

Ruling Awami League would take organisational steps against its leaders who worked against the party nominated candidates in upazila parishad elections with electoral symbol ‘boat’. 
The decision was taken at a meeting of the party’s central working committee on Friday evening at Ganabhaban with the party chief and prime minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair.
Sheikh Hasina directed the leaders concerned to serve show cause notice on the party leaders who violated the party’s decisions, said Afzal Husein, information and research secretary of the party, who attended the meeting. 
Some of the ministers, members of parliaments and party leaders worked against the party nominated upazila chairman candidates in their respective areas.
The party’s organising secretaries at the meeting were instructed to prepare a list of the leaders who acted against party decision.
The upazila polls were held amid boycott of almost all the opposition political parties and in 450 upazilas, the AL nominated and AL backed rebel candidates won the elections.
Muhammad Faruk Khan, a presidium member, emerging from the meeting told New Age that the meeting finalised eight central teams for eight divisions to work for holding the district, upazila council sessions ahead of the party’s central council session of the party to be held October.
The teams would also chalk out programmes for ‘Mujib Year’ to observe 100th birth anniversary of the founding president of the country Sheikh Mujibur Rahan in 2020, Faruk added.
The meeting also nominated Mymensingh city unit vice president Mohammad Ekramul Haque Titu as mayor candidate in the upcoming Mymensigh city corporation elections, scheduled to be held on May 5. 
Most of the members of the 81-member central working committee including presidium members attended the meeting.

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