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AL council session now on Mar 28

By Reaz Ahmad
The .national council session of the ruling Awami League will be held on March 28. three days prior to the expiry of the tenure of AL Central Working Committee (ALCWCI.
The date was fixed last night at a meeting of the 65 member ALCWC held at the Prime Minister's official residence. Ganobhavan. with AL President Sheikh Hasina in the chair, meeting sources said. The meeting also decided that council sessions of district units would be completed by March 6. According to party sources, council sessions of only 32 out of 70 district units of the party were
held so far.
The meeting also endorsed some party resolutions on various political and organisational issues.
Party presidium member and Foreign Minister Abdus Samad Azad will discharge the responsibility of AL president as Sheikh Hasina leaves the country for USA today, the sources said.
The last regular national council session of Awami League was held in September. 1992 and a special council session of the party was held in September. 1995. as the tenure of the ALCWC was scheduled to expire that time. Since then, the tenure of the ALCWC was extended twice: first, tor one year till September. 1996. and second in the lime, for six months till March this year. It was decided then that council session of 70 organisational district units would be completes by November 15 and the national council session would be held sometime in December 1996.
But. due to some organisational problems and intraparly feuds in some districts and thanas, the national council session could not be held in December last, party sources
The meeting decided that Awami League would observe January 31 as "Lalbagh Killing Day’ and February 15 as "Democracy Killing Day".
On January 31 in 1994. a day after the mayoral election, six persons were killed in a post-poll massacre in the city's Lalbagh area. On February 15 last year a general elections was held under the then BNP government amid anti-government movement launched by major opposition parties. The then opposition parties, including the Awami League, had rejected the polls calling it 'one-party farcical election .
According to the sources, yesterday's meeting discussed the forthcoming parliamentary by-poll in a Thakurgaon constituency. Party chief Sheikh Hasina also exchanged views on various socio-political Issues with her party colleagues, the sources added.
The ALCWC members con gratulated the government ol Sheikh Hasina for signing the historic Ganges water sharing ireatv and repealing the Indemnity Ordinance said a party press release The meeting also expressed satisfaction at the progress ol recently held talks between the National Committee and representatives of Shantibahini in resolving the problems In the Chittagong HUI Tracts
The meeting endorsed an obituary reference on some rm inent persons and party leaders and workers who died since the last ALCWC meeting