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AL council by July 25

Staff Correspondent
Awami League yesterday decided to hold national council by July 25, the time limit set by the Election Commission, to ratify provisional changes made to its constitution for registration with the commission.
The decision came at an emergency meeting of the AL presidium, the party's highest policy-making body, with presidium member and deputy leader of parliament Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury in the chair.
Sources said the party made the move after finalising the draft on the changes needed to be brought about in its constitution in line with the Representation of the People Order.
On July 4, the AL policymakers at a meeting with party President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair decided to seek six more months from the EC for holding its national council. The party's last council was held on December26,2002.
Following the meeting, AL Office Secretary and State Minister for Housing and Public Works Abdul Mannan Khan told journalists that the date for holding the party council would be finalised soon after a high-powered AL delegation comprising party presidium members discusses the matter with the EC.
He said the delegation would call at the EC on July 16 to get the EC's view on holding party council and convey it to the party chief.
Later, another presidium meeting would be held with Hasina in the chair to finalise the date and time for holding the national council, said Mannan He also hinted that the party's policymakers would sit within a couple of days to discuss the issue.
AL presidium member Kazi Zafarullah told The Daily Star that they have completed all necessary preparations to hold the council within the stipu-
lated time.
"We want to know the Election Commission's view on the matter because it is mandatory to hold party council within July 25 as per the Representation of the People Order," he said.
The meeting at Hasina's political office in the city's Dhanmondi decided to hold council of nine organisational districts before the national council.
Besides, the central committee would form committees for several districts, where councils have been held but still didn't have full-fledged committees, to elect councillors for the national council, said sources.
Mannan said if necessary, more than one team comprised of central leaders would complete the tasks.
Presidium members Amir Hossain Amu, Tofail Ahmed, Suranjit Sengupta and Ataur Rahman Khan Kaiser were also present.
Before the ninth parliamentary election, political parties were allowed to get registered with the EC by making provisional changes to their charters to meet the registration criteria laid out in the RPO.
But they had to give an undertaking that they would have their amendments approved by the national council within six months after the first sitting of the ninth parliament.