DHAKA, Jan 13, 2019 (BSS) – Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader
today said Awami League President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will hold
dialogues with 75 political parties again.
“Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had invited all the political parties,
including BNP, Jatiya Oikyafront and Jukto Front, for dialogue before the
last polls…she will invite them again for exchanging views with them. The
dialogues will be held at Ganabhaban,” he told reporters at AL’s Bangabandhu
Avenue central office here.
Earlier, Sheikh Hasina held dialogues with the leaders of political
parties before the 11th parliamentary elections.
Later, Quader spoke at a joint-meeting with the party leaders and
lawmakers of city and its adjacent districts.
Speaking at the meeting, he said: “Our party president told us at the
joint-meeting of AL executive committee and advisory council held yesterday
that she would invite the political parties again to join dialogues and would
exchange views with them. We also agreed in this regard”.
He said the parties, which were invited before the polls, will be invited
for dialogues soon. “Every party will be invited with invitation cards,” he
added.
The AL general secretary hoped that all the political parties, including
BNP, would take part in the upcoming Upazila Parishad elections.
“Every party will have to take preparation for the Upazila Parishad polls
from now…we hope all parties, including BNP-Jatiya Oikyafront will join the
polls,” he said.
“We don’t think that our opposition party is weak. We feel happy to
contest in any election.”
About Dr Kamal’s remarks on Jamaat, Quader said he (Dr Kamal) has realised
his mistake. Now, he said, the nation will be happy if Dr Kamal confesses in
this regard.
He said Awami League will hold a grand rally at Suhrawardy Udyan on
January 19 to celebrate its landslide victory in the December 30 general
elections.
Quader said: “We want to celebrate our victory and hope that there will be
a huge gathering. I urge all of you to join the rally with banners and
festoons. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will address the rally”.
AL Joint General Secretaries Mahbub-ul-Alam Hanif and Advocate Jahangir
Kabir Nanak, its Organising Secretaries AFM Bahauddin Nasim and Advocate
Mesbha Uddin Siraj, AL Information and Research Secretary Advocate Afzal
Hossain, Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque and State
Minister for Shipping Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury were, among others, present at
the meeting.