Information Minister and Joint General Secretary of Bangladesh Awami League (AL) Dr Hasan Mahmud on Sunday called upon AL leaders and workers to follow the party decision on nomination of its candidates in the upcoming Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) polls.
“If you don’t obey the party decision, the party will not sit idle over the issue. The party will take necessary action against the disobedient,” he told a meeting of Chattogram City AL held at the election office of AL mayoral candidate Reazaul Karim Chowdhury on city’s KC Dey road on Sunday evening.
Hasan said if it is required to change any candidate, the chief election coordinator and former minister engineer Mosharraf Hossain will take necessary steps after consultation with other senior leaders.
He said the decision of the party regarding the councilor nomination should be accepted by all. “If you want to do politics, you have to obey the party decision,” he said.
“I request you … when you carry out election campaign, you have to seek votes for the party mayor candidate first and then you will seek vote for yourself,” the AL joint general secretary told the councilor candidates.
“Everyone should work to present the prime minister an unforgettable victory in the CCC election on the occasion of the Mujib Borsho,” he said.
He said if AL remains united, no one has the power to face AL in Chattogram.
Dr Hasan said BNP is getting benefits of electoral code of conduct.
“It is very painful for us that we could not seek votes for our party (AL) candidates for being MPs and ministers. Such rules do not exist in anywhere in the world,” he said.
The minister said BNP, one of the opposition sides in the election, is getting many benefits due to this electoral code of conduct and AL falls victim of discrimination.
