With increasing of nomination aspirants in most constituencies, trend to establish supremacy in local levels, lack of communication between the central and grassroots-level leaders and lack of political activities among some top leaders have augmented the long-lasting conflicts between the top leaders and those at the local levels, they said.

At a closed-door view exchange meeting at the party's Dhanmondi office with the AL president in the chair, the local leaders urged her to take effective measurers to solve the internal problems at least three months before the upcoming general elections.

Presidents and general secretaries of AL's district, upazila, thana and municipality units under Tangail, Narsingdi and Gazipur districts attended the 7-hour-long meeting where most of the senior AL leaders were present.

AL got six seats -- three from Gazipur, two from Tangail and one from Narsingdi -- in the 2001 elections out of the 17 seats in the three districts.

The grass-roots leaders urged the party chief to nominate the candidates, who are popular, have mass contacts, and active in AL politics to ensure victory in the elections.

They informed the party chief of the intra-party feuds over nomination and requested her to take effective measurers in this regard, Tangail district unit AL General Secretary Fazlur Rahman Farook told The Daily Star after the meeting.

Warning the grass-roots leaders of taking organisational action against those who would go against the party decision, Hasina instructed them to work together forgetting all differences to ensure victory in the next election.

"We all have demanded nomination of popular and politically active candidates in the next elections," said advocate Ajmat Ullah Khan, general secretary of Gazipur district unit AL said.

Leaders of Narsingdi and Gazipur district units submitted reports against at least three aspirants for nominations including Rahmat Ali MP, General (rtd) Nuruddin and Mohammad Ali while Hasina assured them of taking necessary action to deal with the problems.

The AL chief urged the grass-roots level leaders to initiate ground works for the next elections alongside the ongoing movement through tackling the internal feuds.

She directed the grass-roots leaders to make June 11 Dhaka siege programme a success.

The party chief took the move for view exchange meetings to select candidates from among hundreds of aspirants for the next general elections scheduled for early 2007, AL sources said.

On Saturday, the AL president began view exchanging with leaders from Munshiganj, Manikganj and Narayanganj districts.

Earlier the grass roots level leaders filled up and returned to the AL chief the copy of a party questionnaire that included queries regarding AL party position at the local levels, the aspirants for nominations in the next elections, their popularity in the area and position in anti-government movements.

The grass-roots leaders also submitted lists of the local BNP-Jamaat leaders who "looted people's wealth, occupied lands, politicised local administration, tortured minorities, filed false cases against the party workers and leaders," in last four and a half years.

Leaders of Netrokona, Jamalpur and Sherpur districts will meet the AL chief today and leaders of Mymensingh and Kisoreganj districts tomorrow.