Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday asked the ministers and ruling party leaders to analyse the polls results of the four city corporations and find out reasons behind defeats of all the AL-backed candidates.
She also asked the senior leaders of the party to take necessary steps for resolving “internal feud” among AL ministers, lawmakers and upazila chairmen.
Hasina, also the AL chief, suggested ministers and MPs to boost public relations with local leaders and people of their constituencies.
A numbers of ministers and state ministers who attended the cabinet meeting on Monday held at the secretariat told the Dhaka Tribune on condition of anonymity.
They said the premier began discussing the city corporation polls result before the formal cabinet meeting started.
She talked with some ministers including Agriculture Minister Motia Chowdhury.
“The Prime Minister wanted to know the reason of losing the polls to the agriculture minister. They began talking about the matter. Later, she asked Motia to find out the main reason of defeat and resolve the problems immediately,” they said.
Motia Chowdhury nodded at the premier, saying only one person would not be enough to solve the party problems at the grass roots level. Accomplishing it would require some other responsible leaders, sources quoted Motia to have said.
She assured the PM of taking steps in this regard and added that she would talk about the matter with her (Hasina) later.
The outgoing mayors of four city corporations – Rajshahi, Khulna, Sylhet and Barisal – suffered a crushing defeat in the elections eld on Saturday. All of them are the leaders of the ruling party.
