Don't meddle in local committees
Prime Minister and Awami League chief Sheikh Hasina yesterday expressed dissatisfaction over her party's first-time MPs and minister for interfering in the grassroots unit councils, and said they could not run in elections for the party's thana units.
Hasina also warned them against meddling in the formation of local committees, sources said.
"The new MPs want to keep everything in their grips and this way they want to control the committees. They should not do it," the AL chief was quoted by a party central leader as saying.
About formation of the grassroots committees, the PM asked her party central leaders to give importance to the senior leaders who played critical roles in difficult times.
The directives came at a meeting of the party central working committee at the Gono Bhaban last night.
Hasina told the meeting that the MPs should remember that they were MPs because of the party and they had to follow the party chain of command.
"Audacious behaviour of MPs with senior leaders will not be tolerated," a meeting source quoted the PM.
The meeting comes as the AL is holding grassroots councils across the country, with intra-party conflicts centering on the councils being reported from many districts.
The meeting also discussed the fate of AL leaders who were expelled from the party for contesting the January 5 polls and for backing rival candidates.
Hasina said if the expelled leaders appealed for lifting their expulsion, the party would sincerely consider it.
At the beginning of the meeting, Hasina said her government focused on slashing poverty rate below 10 percent during its current five-year tenure.
"Many people come up with many theories, but there is no point in following these…. Even the theory of caretaker government system has evaporated," she said.
She added her government was following only one theory, and that was to ensure people's rights.
The premier said the just concluded Saarc summit was successful and that Saarc leaders appreciated the various progress Bangladesh was making.
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