Only Awami League can develop the country: PM

Prime Minister and Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina has said that only the Awami League can develop the country.

The Prime Minister said this while speaking at the maiden joint meeting of the AL’s new central executive and advisory councils at the party’s central office at Bangabandhu Avenue on Friday.

She called upon her party leaders and activists to make the party well-organised to help the government work successfully.

The premier simultaneously asked the AL leaders and activists particularly the new central leadership elected after its 21st national council on December 21 last to work with sincerity for developing the party more well-organised accordingly.

The premier dedicated the new central committee’s first meeting to her party’s former general secretary Syed Ashraful Islam as today is his first death anniversary. Syed Ashraful Islam died on January 3, 2019.

Noting that assassination of Bangabandhu along with other AL leaders aimed at keeping AL away from the state power, Sheikh Hasina said, “There was a target to destroy the Awami League in such a way that it never can assume power or take over the charge of running the state. But they (conspirators) didn’t succeed in doing so.”

The premier gave the credit to grassroots leaders for the survival of the party saying, “Grassroots leaders and activists of the Awami League always take the right decision and even they keep the party above all dedicating their lives.”

She continued: “Today, Awami League is a strong party. Awami League is the party which taught political lessons to others party and it has been doing it since its formation in 1949. We will have to keep up the tradition of the party in the days to come.”

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