AL to bring changes to party charter

The ruling Awami League (AL) is going to bring some amendments to its constitution in the forthcoming 20th triennial council, scheduled to be held on July 10-11, to make it an up-to-date one.

The party will take opinions and suggestions from its grassroots in an effort to bring changes to the party charter.

The decision was made at a meeting of the party's sub-committee for amending the constitution with agriculture and cooperatives affairs secretary Abdur Razzak in the chair, held at the party president's Dhanmondi office in the capital yesterday.

The meeting decided to send letters to presidents and general secretaries of all district and upazila units of AL seeking their opinions in this connection.

The committee collected charters of the oldest political parties in the world, including of Labour Party and Conservative Party of UK, Bharatiya Janata Party and Congress of India.

It will go through the parties' constitutions and prepare a proposal to take a leaf out of them to make the AL charter time-befitting.

"We will have finalised the proposal by June 15," said Razzak.

He also hinted at expanding the AL central working committee and party presidium.

Currently, the central working committee comprises 73 members.