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A critical view ends in apology

Staff Correspondent
An Awami League central leader had expressed his concern to the prime minister that many like him were kept in the dark about the government's strategies and the direction it was going in.
Speaking at the AL Central Working Committee meeting on Friday night, Momtaz Uddin Ahmed Mehedi also said he felt that some of the decisions made by the government were wrong.
The way he expressed himself took many of his colleagues by surprise and they made him apologise to Sheikh Hasina for being "too emotional".
The AL chief, however, told him that she didn't ask him to apologise, meeting sources said.
'As a central committee member, I should know about the party decisions. I should know about the
party's plans and the government decisions, but I'm left in the dark," a meeting source quoted Mehedi as saying.
Usually the working committee -the party's highest decision-making body - meets once a month where Hasina sets the tone with her opening speech. Leaders rarely venture any opinions that might go against that tone, AL insiders say.
At Friday's meeting, Mehedi initially talked about the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) and Dhaka Bar Association elections due to be held soon.
Also a former SCBA secretary, he said although his party had been in power for the last six years, he was not aware of the selection of pro-AL candidates forelections to lawyers' organisations and appointments of public prosecutors.
According to meeting sources, he told Hasina that he had the right to know about these matters.
"I've been a central committee member for two terms ... But I don't know anything about court-related matters ... I don't know anything about the party decisions, govern-
ment strategies. I was never asked for opinion before a party decision was made," he was quoted as saying.
Mehedi also said being a central leader of the AL, he felt ignored because it seemed his opinions did not matter to the party. In many cases, the party made wrong decisions.
"I think you don't trust me and so you don't share anything with me,” he told the meeting.
He lamented that he could not even get an appointment with Hasina.
At one stage, a senior AL leader asked Mehedi to stop, but Hasina asked him to go on.
When he finished his speech, some leaders asked him to apologise to the AL chief, which he instantly did.
Contacted for his comments, Mehedi said he was and would always stay loyal to Hasina. He declined to talk about his speech at the meeting.
About elections to the SCBA and Dhaka Bar Association, Hasina had told the meeting that in the last five years pro-AL candidates lost, but this time she herself would select candidates.