The ruling party is now bubbling with enthusiasm and inspiration after it sailed through the just concluded elections to 81 upazilas.
The party that failed to do better in previous two phases of polls than its opponent BNP hopes they would be able to keep up the winning trend in the next spells of ballot battles.
The ruling party thinks that the results have gone in its favour as the central committee extensively looked after the party activities across the country.
Moreover, they were able to rein in the rebel candidates and in most places it could field single candidate after it buried the hatchet between the rival aspirants in the party grassroots.
The party old guard said their bitter experience from the past two phases of elections taught them a lot and they took necessary and decisive measures to win the election battle.
In the third phase of upazila polls the Awami League Awami League-backed chairman contenders bagged 40 seats while BNP-sponsored candidates secured 28 seats out of 78 upazilas.
Whereas in previous two phases Awami League got only 77 chairman posts out of 216 upazilas while the BNP 96.
In the third phase the Awami League won eight upazila chairman posts out of nine upazila pasishad in Khulna Division. The result of Barisal Division was similar to that of Khulna. In Barsal Awami League loyalists bagged four out of five upazilas.
Awami League Khulna Division Organising Secretary BM Mojammel Haque said this time they had done better than the BNP due to various steps and measures taken by the party to resolve the internecine clash in the grassroots level.
Another Organising Secretary Khalid Mahmud Chowhury said their party grassroots leaders and activists had taken up the polls seriously after seeing the humiliating defeat in the previous polls which had earned them good results this time.
Awami League Presidium Member Obaidul Quader said: “I think one of the key reasons behind the win of the party is our extensive monitoring.”
“The polls result this time have inspired our leaders and activists which will boost their confidence in the next phase of elections,” he said.
Quader admitted the fact of intra-party feud in the grassroots saying that in most cases they had resolved it but in some places they had failed to settle down the dispute.
“If we can cement the cohesion of the party we will fare better in the next elections and the polls result will come in our favour,” he hoped.
