AL boosts young leadership

Awami League President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has approved inclusion of 83 assistant secretaries in the party's central sub-committees to strengthen its organisational capacity ahead of the next parliamentary elections.
Awami League Joint General Secretary Mahbubul Alam Hanif confirmed this to The Daily Star yesterday.
The sub-committee got 66 other assistant secretaries a few days back. Most of them are former leaders of Chhatra League, a student body associated with the ruling party, who remained out of any political position in the last four and a half years.
AL presidium member Obaidul Quader and Hanif had prepared a list of some 300 young party leaders and submitted it to Hasina. The AL president, after reviewing the background of each of them, chose 83 as assistant secretaries of the sub-committee.
Hanif quoted Hasina as saying that if any competent person had been excluded now, he would be made assistant secretary later as the process would continue.
The newly-appointed young leaders will strengthen the party's election campaign at the grassroots level. They will also accompany teams of central leaders during visits to different districts after Eid-ul-Fitr and also provide logistics support, said Hanif, also a special assistant to the prime minister.
The assistant secretaries will go to the districts beforehand and make all necessary arrangements for meetings, he explained. Besides, they will also be given specific tasks under each departmental secretary of the party's central committee.
Meanwhile, those who have become assistant secretaries have expressed their satisfaction and pledged to work to bring the party to power again.