Ruling Awami League President Sheikh Hasina has instructed her party leaders to prepare for holding the national council in December.
She also asked the leaders to complete the district-level councils by December at any cost, said leaders who attended the party’s Central Working Committee meeting at Ganabhaban last night.
“It was not possible to hold the national council in time due to the BNP-Jamaat’s agitation. So now is the appropriate time to hold the council,” the premier was quoted by a leader, who asked not to be named.
The meeting also discussed about the ongoing agitations by private universities students and teachers of the public universities.
The meeting started around 7:30pm. Party’s General Secretary Syed Ashraful Islam and Presidium members were present.
Hasina and Syed Ashraf were reelected as party president and general secretary in the 19th central council held on December 29, 2012. The previous council was held on July 24, 2009. According to the party constitution, the council session is held every three years.
The party was floated as Awami Muslim League at a two-day political workers conference at the historic Rose Garden on Abhoy Das Lane of Old Dhaka on June 23-24 in 1949. Maulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhasani, Shamsul Huq and Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman were elected as its president, general secretary and joint secretary. Later it was renamed as the Awami League.
