AL to ask ministers, MPs to exclude relatives
The Awami League yesterday decided to urge all its ministers and lawmakers not to pick their relatives for contesting the upcoming municipality elections scheduled for January next year.
It also decided that the AL-led grand alliance will support a single candidate for each post.
The high command of the ruling party took the decisions at a meeting with its organising secretaries at party General Secretary Syed Ashraful Islam's Jatiya Sangshad Bhaban office last night.
“We'll urge the ministers, state ministers, lawmakers and other leaders not to nominate their close relatives in the municipality polls,” Mahbubul Alam Hanif, party joint general secretary, told The Daily Star after the meeting.
He said there is a trend to nominate relatives of the ministers, lawmakers and local leaders in local elections depriving dedicated leaders, but his party wants to come out of it.
Presidents and general secretaries of the party's district, upazila and municipality unit committee, pro-AL upazila chairmen and vice-chairmen of all upazilas and all party lawmakers will sit to select suitable candidates, party sources said.
All the seven organising secretaries, deputy office secretary Mrinal Kanti Das, party leaders Hanif and Ashraf were present at the meeting.
Talking to The Daily Star, Hanif, also a special assistant to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said, they have finalised the strategy to give support the candidate of their choice.
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