DHAKA, May 20, 2020 (BSS) – Prime Minister and Awami League
President Sheikh Hasina today asked the party leaders and workers to
stand by people, alongside the government, in addressing the aftermath
of cyclone Amphan.
In an emergency meeting at AL president’s Dhanmondi political
office here, she instructed the AL central leaders to communicate with
AL leaders of coastal districts and take necessary measures to this
end, an AL press release said.
The AL central leaders gave necessary instructions to the party
leaders and workers at the coastal districts and asked them to remain
ready to address the super cyclone.
The leaders and activists of AL and its associate bodies have been
instructed to help local administrations bring the vulnerable people
to the cyclone shelter centres in a shortest possible time and ensure
physical distancing and health guidelines in these centres.
They have also been asked to continue optimum efforts to ensure
safe shelter of coastal people and provide food assistance and
treatment facilities for them.
AL presidium member Matia Chowdhury, Jahangir Kabir Nanak and Abdur
Rahman, joint general secretaries Mahbubul Alam Hanif and AFM
Bahauddin Nasim, organising secretaries BM Mozammel Haque, SM Kamal
Hossain and advocate Afzal Hossain, relief and social welfare
secretary Sujit Roy Nandi and deputy office secretary Sayeem Khan
were, among others, present.