AL’s national council: N’ganj AL expecting central committee posts

Narayanganj has a historic association with Awami League. The district with five upazilas had played significant roles in Language Movement and Liberation War both. Despite this rich political background, Narayanganj Awami League could not bag any place in the cabinet as well as in Awami League central committee. That is why the leaders and activists of the district Awami League are looking forward to the upcoming national council of the party. They  are expecting lawmakers Shamim Osman and Nazrul Islam Babu to get posts in the central committee. Because, in the district Awami League committee, which was declared on October 9 after long 14 years, Shamim and Babu did not get any position. The 20th national council of the ruling party is going to be held in the capital’s Suhrawardy Uddan on 22-23 October, while the party’s central committee will be formed through voting. A total of 169 councillors, who will vote in the election of the central committee, and the same number of activists from Narayanganj would join the triennial council, said Abdul Hye, president of the district AL and also administrator of Zila Parishad. But many more were interested to go to Dhaka, at least, to witness the council, said M Saifullah Badal, president of Fatullah Awami League. Despite prevalent excitement ahead of the council, no decoration or lighting is seen in the town, even in the party office, and important places of the district. Khokon Shaha, general secretary to Narayanganj city Awami League, said as they would go to the council in a grand caravan of buses and would present themselves differently, they did not concentrate on the decoration of the places.