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PM evaluating report cards of party MPs

Cautions colleagues that no nomination in next polls for failure

SHAKHAWAT LlTON and RASHIDUL HASAN
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been evaluating the performance of her party lawmakers on the basis of reports she has received from different agencies.
Hasina, chief of the Awami League, said this at a meeting of the AL parliamentary party yesterday, several ruling party lawmakers told The Daily Star after the meeting at the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban.
Sounding a note of caution, Hasina said lawmakers who had failed to drum up public support for the government would not get party nominations at the next parliamentary polls.
The lawmakers said the prime minister
told them that she had already gone through 200 of 300 reports collected from as many parliamentary constituencies.
“After reading all the reports, she will hold group meetings with lawmakers to discuss the reports' findings,” said an AL lawmaker who asked not to be named.
The lawmakers said each group would comprise 25 lawmakers.
“I am constandy monitoring the performance of party lawmakers. Three years have gone by.
There is still time for them to solve the problems in their constituencies," the AL lawmaker quoted Hasina as saying at the meeting. The reports were prepared on the lawmakers' performance in the last two years and nine months in areas that include strengthening the party, carrying out development work and their conduct with locals and party activists, said some lawmakers after the meeting.
The reports have also provided Hasina with information about prospective candidates for the next parliamentary election.
“She has even collected information about those party nominees who were defeated by the BNP-led alliance candidates in the 2008 parliamentary polls,” AL lawmaker Shafiqul Islam of Jhenidah toIdThe Daily Star.
He said the PM was also studying the performance of the lawmakers of the Jatiya Party, Workers Party and Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal, components of the AL-led alliance.
Quoting the prime minister, Shafiqul said the AL had picked its candidates for the 2008 parliamentary polls on the basis of field reports.
A number of lawmakers said Hasina had engaged different intelligence agencies in the preparation of the reports.
Hasina said the ruling
alliance would face the oppo -sition's ongoing antigovernment movement politically. She advised the lawmakers to communicate the message to the people that the BNP-led coalition was out to “prevent the trial of war criminals”.
The AL alone won 230 seats in the parliamentary polls on December29,2008. FORMATION OFTHE EC The AL parliamentary party decided that the AL would consult other components of the AL-led alliance and then send names to the search committee on the constitution of a new Election Commission.
The decision came after a brief debate at the meeting.
Finance Minister AMA Muhith, AL leaders Tofail Ahmed and Abdul Matin Khasru spoke against proposing any names to the search committee, said sources.
They said such a move would give rise to controversy.
However, Agriculture Minister Mafia Chowdhury and senior party leader Amir Hossain Amu spoke in favour of proposing names to the search committee on the appointment of election commissioners.
Emerging from the meet-
ing, AL General Secretary Syed Ashraful Islam told The Daily Star, “We will sit with the leaders of the 14-party alliance and will possibly send names to the search committee tomorrow [today]."
Later, Hasina held a meeting with the 14-party alliance leaders, including Workers Party President Rashed Khan Menon and Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal President Hasanul Haque Inu.
A source said the issues of names for the search committee, the failed plot to topple the government and the opposition's antigovernment movement figured prominently at the meeting.
The prime minister said that she would not say anything about proposing names to the search committee and that the party and other components of the ruling alliance would decide on the matter, said the source.
Hasina also said she would not even give her opinion on the issue at the party's upcoming meeting about suggesting names to the search committee.
After the meeting, Ashraf sat with the ruling alliance leaders to discuss the issue.