Published on 06:50 PM, March 25, 2023

Don't hold iftar parties, PM tells party men

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina

Awami League President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has instructed her party men not to organise iftar mahfils but to distribute iftar items among the poor.

"AL President Sheikh Hasina has instructed all the party leaders and workers -- from the central to grassroots -- not to organise iftar mahfils," AL General Secretary Obaidul Quader told a rally in front of AL's Bangabandhu Avenue central office in Dhaka this afternoon.

Dhaka south and north units of Awami League organised the joint rally, marking Genocide Day on March 25.

Quader, also the road transport and bridges minister, said: "All the AL units and its affiliated organisations from the central level to grassroots level will not arrange iftar mahfils during the holy month of Ramadan. This is the instruction from our party chief. You should distribute iftar items among the poor and the destitute people with the money you are supposed to spend for arranging iftar mahfils."

Chaired by Dhaka South City AL president Abu Ahmed Mannafi, the rally was addressed, among others, by AL presidium members Tofazzal Hossain Chowhury Maya and Advocate Quamrul Islam, joint general secretaries Mahbubul Alam Hanif and AFM Bahauddin Nasim and organising secretary Mirza Azam.