Ruling Awami League leaders on Wednesday criticised the government's performance in some specific areas, especially its failure to contain soaring prices and keep law and order.
The leaders at a meeting of the party's central working committee at Gana Bhaban, the prime minister's residence in the capital, also urged the government to make effective efforts to arrest price spiral before Ramadan and keep law and order, sources attending the meeting said.
The meeting, which continued for four hours and a half, also discussed the present political situation and decided to gear up the party's activities to face the movement of the opposition parties politically, the sources said.
The party's president, Sheikh Hasina, also the prime minister, presided over the meeting.
The sources said that party leaders had also agreed to sit with the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party if it was willing to discuss alternatie proposals for the caretaker government system to hold free, fair and credible elections.
'We have discussed various organisational issues and the present political situation,' the party's presidium member Kazi Zafar Ullah told New Age after the meeting.
Abnormal prices of essential commodities and dipping law and order were also discussed, he added.
The sources said that executive committee member Mohammad Nasim raised the issue of prices and law and order and urged the government to be attentive to the issues to uphold the popularity of the government.
He also said that the presidential clemency to AHM Biplob, son of Lakshmipur Awami League leader Abu Taher, had created a controversy but the prime minister said that Taher's son had been falsely implicated in the case and he was not given the chance to appear for his bail.
Nasim suggested that the government should take special measures to check prices before Ramadan, the sources said.
Harun Ur Rashid, another leader, accused the ministers of not maintaining proper communications with leaders and activists which frustrated the party men at the grass roots, the sources said.
Another executive committee member, Altaf Hossain, accused some ministers of not cooperating with the lawmakers, upazila chairmen and local leaders in development activities.
The sources said that a leader had accused the communications minister of not working properly for the development of road communications.
'We pointed out different issues and suggested that the government should take special measures in some areas,' Altaf told New Age.
The party's law affairs secretary, Abdul Matin Khasru, said that the prime minister had instructed the party men to create awareness among the people of the propaganda of some vested interests who are trying to tarnish the image of the government.
'The issue of the caretaker government is very much political and the party should work to win public support for the amendment to the constitution,' Khasru quoted Sheikh Hasina as saying. She also said some vested interests were trying to misguide the people by misinterpreting the issue of religion regarding the amendment to the constitution.
The meeting also finalised programme of holding rallies in 19 greater districts in July 26–28 to strengthen party's activities.
It also decided to hold the pending council sessions of 11 district units and such sessions of grassroots units.
Source : New Age
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