Prime Minister and re-elected President of Awami League Sheikh Hasina has asked her party members to act as messengers of the party's success stories so that every home in Bangladesh can learn about the achievements of the Awami League-led government.
She asked them to win hearts and gain voters.
Sheikh Hasina made the suggestions on Monday when top party leaders from different levels of the country came to her official residence Ganabhaban to greet her for being reelected as the party president.
During the meeting, she asked the party leaders and activists to spread the development activities taken by the Awami League government in recent years for the welfare of people.
She said: "We have to inform the common people what we have done for them; we have to tell them if you cast your votes again for Awami League, you will get even more.
"If you do not tell these, how will people know, you have to start telling these right now well before the election schedule is announced… you will have to put these information into people’s hearts."
Talking to the grassroots, Hasina said: "We’ve proved several times that we do what we say and we will have to do the same again."
Stressing that the party should be stronger, the prime minister said Awami League leaders and activists have to stand beside people. "The only aim of Awami League is to work for the welfare of people so that their fate can be changed."
The prime minister also asked the leaders and activists to get ready for the next general election and make the best use of the remaining Awami League government’s tenure.
On Sunday, during her acceptance speech at the council, she said the next general election must be unquestionably fair, and all her party colleagues should work towards that, starting immediately.
At the meeting, she said: "We have two years and two months [of our tenure] in hand, the election process will start three months prior to that… we do not have plenty of time. So, I request you to utilise the time properly apart from making the organisation stronger."
Hasina also vowed afresh to free Bangladesh from poverty and urged the party leaders and activists to prepare a list of ultra-poor people who do not have homes and living in great distress. "If Awami League is voted to power again, people will have a better descent life free from poverty."
Without taking the name of anyone, she mentioned some people sucked the blood of the poor in the name of sending poverty to the museum.
Listing various development activities of her government in agriculture, food security, healthcare, education, digitisation and other socioeconomic sectors, the prime minister asked the party leaders and activists to spread these messages of development among people.
Talking about terrorism and militancy, she said BNP-Jamaat nurtured these social menaces in the country. "These are the great problems not only in Bangladesh but also in the whole world… we’ll have to solve this problem in our country; we must not be dependent on others."
She also asked the Awami League followers to remain alert in this regard and involve imams and religious leaders to convey the message that Islam is the religion of peace. "Islam is not a religion of terrorism."
Thursday, June 04, 2026
