Organised party gives strength to government
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said a government having a well-organised party behind it could develop a country fast.
“A government can work successfully when there’ll be a well-organised party behind it ... a well-organised party is a great strength for a government ... this strength works most in developing a country, and I feel that,” she said.
Hasina, also president of the ruling Awami League, was addressing the first joint meeting of the newly formed AL Central Working Committee and the Advisory Council at the party’s Bangabandhu Avenue central office.
In her introductory speech, Hasina said she dedicated this first meeting to late AL general secretary Syed Ashraful Islam as yesterday was his first death anniversary.
On January 3, 2019, Syed Ashraf, also the then public administration minister, died at the age of 68 while undergoing treatment at a Bangkok hospital. He had been suffering from lung cancer.
Hasina said she always attached the highest importance to her party and instructed different district, upazila, union and ward AL units, which were yet to hold their councils, to do so quickly for having a stronger party across the country. “We’ve to build the entire party in a stronger way.”
She also put emphasis on holding councils of the party’s associate organisations.
Hasina said those who came to power after the assassination of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in 1975 never believed in the liberation of the country. “That’s why they had tried hard to make the country a failed state and that was their main intention.”
She said but the AL’s aim was to prove meaningful the country’s hard-earned independence that came after the struggle of 24 years under the leadership of Bangabandhu, and that must not go in vain.
The killing of Bangabandhu and other AL leaders was to keep the AL away from power, Hasina added. “They [killers] had wanted to make it sure that the AL could never come to power.”
Terming 2020 a very important year for Bangladesh, the PM said this year the country would celebrate “Mujib Borsho” to mark the birth centenary of Bangabandhu.
“With a new spirit, we’ll make Bangladesh a developed country so that people can keep their heads high anywhere in the world, and that’s our promise.”
Briefly describing conspiracies and propaganda against her party after 1975, Hasina said the conspirators had often said AL leaders were not smart, modern, and educated.
“Those who had come to power claiming themselves smart got indulged in looting, money laundering, and corruption. Their smartness was to make money for themselves.”
The AL has proved that only this party can develop the country and make it a prosperous one, Hasina said.
TWO COMMITTEES
At the meeting, the party also formed two committees, including its senior leaders, to run activities of Dhaka city polls slated for January 30, reports our staff correspondent.
Sources said AL leader Amir Hossain Amu will lead a team for the party candidates for Dhaka South City Corporation, and Tofail Ahmed for Dhaka North City Corporation.
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