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Awami League council may be deferred

By Nurul Kabir
The central council session of the Awami League (AL) scheduled for June 1 and 2 Is likely to be deferred to the last week of the same month, party Working Committee sources »V-
The Working Committee meeting beginning today will finalise the schedule after reviewing the latest situation of the party's preparations for the council session to be held on the dates fixed earlier.
According to sources, distribution of the posters printed earlier for the council session bearing dates June I and 2 has been postponed pending todays decision of the Working Committee.
Al. General Secretary Sajcda Chowdhury and the leaders
sharing her views have reportedly been persuading party chief Sheikh liaslna to change the dates of the council session.
According to sources, Sajeda and most of the work Ing committee members be lleve that the council session should not be held before the completion of the district-level conferences and the resolution of disputes arising out of elections of leaders in some of the party district units.
Sources close to the party Genera) Secretary told The Dally Star that more than 10 district units of the party arc yet to hold their conferences while severe leadership conflicts have been surfaced In about a dozen of the party's district units.
Moreover, drafting of some major amendments to both the party constitution and the manifesto to be proposed in the council session is yet to be finalised. Sajeda and her associates said in favour of their views.
Party chief Sheikh Hasina, on the other hand, is reportedly in favour of holding the council session on the scheduled dates.
Sources close lo Hasina say that she maintains that the shifting of the schedule of the council may give birth to frustrations among the party workers all over the country.
And above that the leadership conflict in the districtlevci organs of the party would remain even if the council session was deferred by two or three weeks, sources further ^Sheikh Hasina is to leave the country on June 8 for Saudi, Arabia to perform Haj.
Persons close to say that Sheikh Hasina wants to consolidate her leadership in the party further through the council session of the AL before her departure.
Today's Working Committee meeting along with reviewing preparations to hold the party council on the date fixed earlier. will discuss the situation arising out of Zohra Tajuddin’s controversial remarks at the Dhaka district unit council session of the suspended AL leader Montu-led faction on May 22.
The AL Working Committee is to approve the new committees formed al recent council sessions of the district units of the parly.