Bangladesh Awami League, the main ally in the 14-party grand alliance, will announce its manifesto for the tenth parliamentary election on Saturday.
Awami League President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will come up with the election manifesto at the capital’s Bangabandhu International Conference Centre (BICC) at 3pm.
This time the slogan of the AL’s election manifesto will be “Peace, democracy, development and progress – Bangladesh moves forward,” AL Public Secretary Nuh Alam Lenin earlier told the Dhaka Tribune.
Party sources said there would be no special attractions in the manifesto for the 10th national elections, and that it was an upgrade on the manifesto for the 2008 elections.
An Awami League member involved in the preparation of the manifesto told the Dhaka Tribune that it has been prepared as a continuation of the 2008 manifesto, which was unique and had set 2021 as the target year for many of its development goals.
The sources said in the manifesto the Awami League was likely to focus on increasing per capita income to US$1500, producing 24,000MW electricity, becoming a middle-income country by 2021, reducing poverty to 13%, completing the trials and executing the sentences of the war criminals.
The manifesto would likely also include promises of attaining food autarky, containing corruption and establishing good governance.
In the last election, Sheikh Hasina had started her election campaign by announcing the manifesto.
However, this year the manifesto is going to be declared after the first phase of the party chief’s election campaign, which started on December 26.
