The Awami League-led 14-party Grand Alliance will launch a massive campaign after Eid-ul-Fitr against the propaganda spread by Hefazat-e-Islam and Jamaat-e-Islam and highlight the government’s achievements in the last four-and-a-half years. In this regard, the party would also announce a month-long series of programmes, including discussions, rallies and human chains, after Eid-ul-Fitr to gear up the party’s organisational activities and to ensure that the party workers remain active.
After facing a debacle in the last five city corporation elections, the ruling Awami League (AL) has decided to bolster its organisational strength through different types of programmes after Eid.
However, the party believes that it was defeated in the last city corporation elections because of propaganda spread by Hefazat-e-Islam and Jamaat-e-Islam against the government. The party also believes that if it is able to make the people of the country understand that Hefazat and Jamaat are deliberately spreading falsehoods against the government, they can snatch victory in the next general elections, due early next year.
Talking to The Independent, AL joint general secretary Mahbub-ul-Alam Hanif on Friday said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has already asked the party’s central leaders to work at the grassroots level and project the government’s successes to the people so as to retain its previous image, which has been tarnished by Hefazat and Jamaat by spreading propaganda.
“We will work hard to increase our organizational strength after Eid,” he also said.
Earlier, on Thursday, AL general secretary Syed Ashraful Islam said the ruling party would go out in full strength after Eid to counter BNP-Jamaat-Hefazat moves.
“We will be in the field with our all-out efforts after Eid to gear up organisational activities and make preparations for the next general elections,” he said while talking to reporters after a meeting of the party’s central working committee.
The AL general secretary said the party’s front organizations, including the Jubo League, Chhatra League, Shhechashebok League and Mahila League, will form separate teams led by the party’s central leaders after holding discussions with party president Sheikh Hasina.
Syed Ashraf said these teams would travel across the country and organise a campaign against the propaganda spread by the BNP-Jamaat combine and Hefazat-e-Islam and project the government’s tremendous successes to the country’s people in a bid to drum up support in favour of the AL for the next general elections.
Even though the present government has seen tremendous successes in the fields of agriculture, education, information technology and the country’s infrastructure, AL-backed candidates were defeated in the last city corporation polls only because of Hefazat-Jamaat’s propaganda, he said.
“We will have to make the people understand so that they are not misguided by the Hefazat-Jamaat propaganda ahead of the national polls,” he added.
-With The Independent input
